[Python-ideas] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions (post #4)

[Mike Miller]

On 2018-04-13 08:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> So my position is:
> 
> - "as" is more Pythonic and looks nicer;

Yes, perhaps if typing annotations had not chosen the colon but used a 
whitespace delimiter instead, adding a few more colons to the source would not 
be an issue.

But in combination, it feels like there will be way too many colons in a 
potential future Python.  One of the things I liked about it historically was 
its relative lack of punctuation and use of short words like in, and, not, as, etc.

As mentioned before, I liked := for assignment in Pascal, but presumably since 
we are keeping == for testing, there's not as strong of an argument for that 
spelling.

-Mike