<div dir="ltr">Sorry for messing up the quoting. I blame GMail. Only the text starting "Since this thread is dead" was mine.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 8:20 PM Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:12 PM Tim Peters <<a href="mailto:tim.peters@gmail.com" target="_blank">tim.peters@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">It doesn't even exist yet, but Googling on</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> python operator :=<br><br>already returns a directly relevant hit on the first page for me:<br><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26000198/what-does-colon-equal-in-python-mean" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26000198/what-does-colon-equal-in-python-mean</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The hits above it are all to overviews of Python operators. Here on Windows, the interface to the Python doc files in IDLE contains an entry for each operator, so just typing := in the index search box will eventually go directly to its docs. If you can't do something similar on Linux, upgrade to Windows ;-)</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Since this thread is dead and everybody is just posting to get the last word, I can report that for me, Googling for "Python :=" gives PEP 572 as the first non-ad hit. Also among the top hits are section 6 (Expressions) and section 7 (Simple statements) of the Python 3.7.0 docs. Seems there is at least one thing that Google still does right. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>(Though Bing also has an ironically relevant hit: apart from the above StackOverflow issue, it found a piece of third party documentation titled Conditionals and loops. :-)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3934795232840148711gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div></div>
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