On 18.10.2016 00:11, Michael duPont wrote:
What does everyone think about:
if foo = get_foo():
bar(foo)
as a means to replace:
foo = get_foo()
if not foo:
bar(foo)
del foo
Might there be some better syntax or a different keyword? I constantly run into
this sort of use case.
Befor
It was not my intention to declare those to be similar, just as a
furthering train of thought. I agree that using "as" is a much more
Pythonic syntax. I'm sure there was (and will be) some discussion as to
whether it should operate like "if foo:" or "if foo is not None:". I'll
look a bit further in
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Michael duPont wrote:
> What does everyone think about:
>
> if foo = get_foo():
> bar(foo)
>
> as a means to replace:
>
> foo = get_foo()
> if not foo:
> bar(foo)
> del foo
>
> Might there be some better syntax or a different keyword? I constantly run
> in
In the spirit of borrowing from other languages, there’s a particular bit of
functionality from Swift that I’ve really wanted to have in Python.
To preface, Swift uses var and let (static) when variables are created. It also
supports optionals which allows a variable to be either some value or n
