On 26Oct2012 19:19, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: | (I've always been partial to ":=", personally.)
I'm less so. It is hard to type (on my keyboard anyway, that's a shifted keystroke followed by an unshifted one). I mank that up often enough that I would resent it for something as oft used as an assignment. Visually, yes, it's good. I was happy with it in Pascal and its like, though I find the succinctness of plain "=" very attractive given that it is only available on the left in Python, where it is easy to see and not prone to mixups with == later in an expression. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> George, discussing a patent and prior art: "Look, this publication has a date, the patent has a priority date, can't you just compare them?" Paul Sutcliffe: "Not unless you're a lawyer." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list