Hi list, when reading PEP 572 I actually liked it a lot - I think it's actually a cool idea. I think it's actually that cool an idea that it should be made the default way of doing an assignment, over time phasing out the good ole =. This would have several benefits: - people wouldn't have to worry about two different options - different things would have a different look: assignment is :=, keyword args is =, while comparison is ==. Especially beginners would benefit from this clarity. in this case, for sure, we should make it possible to chain :=s, for example by making it bind right-to-left, so that a := b := 3 would be a := (b := 3) I'm sorry if somebody brought that up already, but the discussion has grown so huge that I couldn't read through it entirely. Greetings Martin