<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">>    $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2))</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br>I suspect you ALREADY have bash installed on your computer, you don't need Python to emulate it.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Zero Piraeus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schesis@gmail.com" target="_blank">schesis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">:<br>
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On 28 April 2018 at 07:07, Tim Peters <<a href="mailto:tim.peters@gmail.com">tim.peters@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> [...] For that matter, I'd be fine too with shortening it to "let".  In<br>
<span class="">> fact, I prefer that!  Thanks :-)<br>
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</span>If you really wanted to overcome objections that this looks too much<br>
like a function, you could spell it "$". I'm not sure what I think<br>
about<br>
<br>
    $(a=7, $(a=a+1, a*2))<br>
<br>
yet, but it doesn't make me want to run screaming in the way that := does.<br>
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I think I finally worked out why I have such a violent reaction to :=<br>
in the end, by the way: it's because it reminds me of Javascript's<br>
"===" (not the meaning, but the fact that it exists).<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
 -[]z.<br>
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