Re: [Python-Dev] (name := expression) doesn't fit the narrative of PEP 20

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:21 AM, Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:

:= also goes against having one obvious way to do it. Since it's an expression, it can also be placed on its own line or in otherwise weird places like function call arguments. I anticipate PEP 8 would have to be extended to explicitly discourage such abuse. Linters would grow rules against it. This is noise.

Does this argument also apply to the if/else expression? Do linters need rules to advise against people writing code like: print(x) if x is None else print(y) ? It's perfectly legal to write code like this. But I don't see people abusing this sort of thing. ChrisA