[Python-Dev] Call for prudence about PEP-572

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Paddy McCarthy <paddy3118 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 at 16:50, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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>> This seems more suitable for a style guide.
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> Which would be good enough, if the automatic checkers were improved  to flag
> such poor use of ':='..
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> Would that be possible?
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I would recommend letting it be for a while, and seeing what abuses
actually happen. Then linters can be coded to flag the abuses.

ChrisA