[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:25:02 +0200
Christoph Groth <christoph at grothesque.org> wrote:
> 
> I think that this is the crucial point.  If it is indeed a design
> principle of Python that expressions should not have the side-effect of
> assigning names, than the whole discussion of PEP 572 could have been
> stopped early on.  I didn't have this impression since core devs
> participated constructively in the discussion.

python-dev and python-ideas are two different mailing-lists with
different participants, so there's a selection bias here.  People who
are willing follow lengthy python-ideas discussions may be more
tolerant to adventurous language changes.  Many core developers
(including myself) don't read python-ideas routinely.

Regards

Antoine.