On 3/23/19 1:37 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
Sure, someone is going to typo and omit the = from a := assignment in 3.8 but the walrus is unlikely to be used outside of an conditional or loop test context so this seems like a made up problem.
Walruses aren't allowed as a top-level expression anyway: Python 3.8.0a2 (default, Feb 25 2019, 17:15:37) [Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> d["answer"] := 42 File "<stdin>", line 1 d["answer"] := 42 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax --Ned. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
