On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:44:44 -0500 Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Which this alternative expresses directly: > > if (diff := x - x_base) and (g := gcd(diff, n)) > 1: > return g > > That's so Pythonic I could cry ;-)
It looks like C to me. That won't make me cry (I write C++ code daily these days), but it's certainly not the same language as Python. The second part, especially, where you use the result of an assignment expression as a comparison operand, looks definitely un-Pythonic. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com