On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
It's entirely true that binding expressions don't change this situation at all, EXCEPT that the entire point of binding expressions is to be able to express in one statement what used to take more than one. With binding expressions, actions may be coverage-hidden within one statement that without them would have been coverage-visible in more than one statement.
So far, all the examples in the PEP have the exact same coverage with and without assignment expressions, with a few exceptions where coverage is *improved* by them (where the alternative is to duplicate a function call). By combining multiple lines into one, we also ensure that all of it is executed exactly once, instead of having conditional execution. ChrisA