[Python-Dev] cpython: Remove some extraneous parentheses and swap the comparison order to

Wed Jun 8 04:43:32 CEST 2011

On 6/7/2011 5:35 PM, David Malcolm wrote:
> I know that this style is unpopular, but if it helps, try mentally
> pronouncing "==" in C as "is the value of".
>> In this example, when I read that line, my mind is thinking:
>> "if 'u' is the value of typecode"
>> After ~12 years of doing this, it comes naturally. I appreciate that
> this may come across as weird though :)

Whereas I read it as 'has the value' (or just 'is' ;=).
Not being tempted to reverse in Python is one advantage of not having 
assignment expressions.
-- 
Terry Jan Reedy