On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 15:50, Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote:
Before we all get a little too excited here, I think that allowing
1 = xas a sneaky way of writing
assert x == 1would be a terrible mistake.
Well, we'll always have the sneaky way to check if an iterable is empty:
() = x
which admittedly would be useful for entries to the IOPPP (International Obfuscated Python Program Pageant)
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