Conditional Expressions don't solve the problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Do you REALLY find
>
>     while (line := file.readline()) != 'end':
>         process_line(line)
>
> to be less readable than
>
>     while 1:
>        line = file.readline
>        if line == 'end': break
>        process_line (line)

yes.

even if Python had a := operator, both examples would be
seriously broken.  broken code isn't readable.

and the "while 1" pydiom usually doesn't look that way.

(for some reason, people attacking it always do the same mis-
take.  probably a newbie thing: once you start using Python to
write pydiomatic Python code instead doing things the C/Java
way, it's not a real problem).

and you really should learn about iterators.

(and this is my only post on this topic, promise ;-)

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