Ruby like syntactic sugar

[Terry Reedy]

"F Jamitzky" <fxj at mpe.mpg.de> wrote in message
news:5349af3f.0403021326.ed19d8c at posting.google.com...
> Was this intended as a language feature or is this style an
> "unpythonic"

It is intentional that Python give you the flexibility to do things the
developers never imagined and that most users think a bit wierd or 'over
the top'.  Playing with things like this is one way to learn, and probably
more fun than some.

Terry J. Reedy