[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

[Mike Miller]

On 2018-04-24 12:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Aside from the restriction to binding only to a simple name, and the
> fact that they're also an expression with the same value, how are they
> not the same as plain assignment? Any discrepancies should be
> considered bugs.

Slightly different in that they return the value, and are expressions not 
assignment statements.

Now, I agree that's not a difference of much consequence, but the difference 
from "import as" is not either.

-Mike