[Python-Dev] Assignment expression and coding style: the while True case

[Tim Peters]

[Victor Stinner]
>
> > I propose to start the discussion about "coding style" (where are
> > assignment expressions appropriate or not?) with the "while True"
> > case.
>

[Steven D'Aprano]

> We don't even have an official implementation yet, and you already want
> to start prescribing coding style? We probably have months before 3.8
> alpha comes out.
>
> I appreciate your enthusiasm, but what's the rush? Give people a chance
> to play with the syntax in the REPL before making Thou Shalt and Thou
> Shalt Not rules for coding style and making wholesale changes to the std
> lib.
>

I'm all in favor of what Victor is doing:  looking at how this stuff will
work in actual code.  That's a great antidote to the spread of theoretical
fears.

Wholesale changes to the std lib are unlikely to happen regardless.  Broad
patches just to spell things differently without _need_ are discouraged.



> This topic has been argued and argued and argued on two mailing lists
> for over four months.


Which is why I strongly welcome looking at code instead.  A few people have
already noticed that some of Victor's changes aren't actually disasters ;-)


> Let's take a couple of weeks to catch our breath,

wait for the implementation to actually hit the 3.8 repo, before trying
> to prescribe coding style or thinking about which parts of the std lib
> should be refactored to use it and which shouldn't.
>

The more code people look at, the better.  It won't be merged, but having
the diffs makes it all concrete.  And while I don't particularly care to
argue about coding style myself, at least that would be a _new_ thing to
argue about ;-)
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