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

[Ivan Pozdeev]

On 05.07.2018 9:23, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 05.07.18 01:51, Victor Stinner пише:
>> == Pattern 1, straighforward ==
>>
>> while True:
>>      line = input.readline()
>>      if not line:
>>          break
>>      ...
>>
>> IMHO here assingment expression is appropriate here. The code remains
>> straighfoward to read.
>>
>> while (line := input.readline()):
>>      ...
>
> We already have an idiom for this:
>
> for line in input:
>     ...
>

This is not strictly equivalent: it has internal caching unaffected by 
-u and you can't iterate and .read() at the same time.

Though in this specific case (the example is from Lib\base64.py AFAICS), 
the change to `for' is fine.

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Ivan