Using 'as' was debated extensively on python-ideas. I don't like it for several reasons:

- the semantics are subtly different from all other uses of 'as' in Python; I'd like to reserve 'as' for "not a plain assignment"
- a short word is easier to miss when skimming code than punctuation
- most other languages (Java*, C*) borrow from assignment (name = expr)


On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Ned Deily <nad@python.org> wrote:
On Apr 23, 2018, at 18:04, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, against "as" is that its current use in "with" statements
> does something quite different:
>
>    with f() as name:
>
> does not bind the result of `f()` to `name`, but the result of
> `f().__enter__()`.  Whether that "should be" fatal, I don't know, but
> it's at least annoying ;-)

Prior art: COBOL uses "GIVING", as in:

   ADD x, y GIVING z

No need to re-invent the wheel ;)

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