PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

What is it? The link points to a discussion more deep than I’m willing to read.

It's a controversial PEP https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/ which allows you to write Python like this:

    def foo():
        if n := randint(0, 3):
            return n ** 2
        return 1337


    [(x, y, x/y) for x in input_data if (y := f(x)) > 0]

It also seems include a special case for if/while that lets you do:

    def foo():
        if randint(0, 3) as n:
            return n ** 2
        return 1337

which looks a bit better to me.