On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > > Having survived four rounds in the boxing ring at python-ideas, PEP > 572 is now ready to enter the arena of python-dev. I'll let the > proposal speak for itself. Be aware that the reference implementation > currently has a few test failures, which I'm still working on, but to > my knowledge nothing will prevent the proposal itself from being > successfully implemented.
Very interesting / exciting, thanks! > Augmented assignment is not supported in expression form:: > > >>> x +:= 1 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > x +:= 1 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax Can you include in the PEP a brief rationale for not accepting this form? In particular, is the intent never to support it, or is the intent to expressly allow adding it at a later date (e.g. after getting experience with the simpler form, etc)? --Chris _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com