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PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

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317 points est | 1 comments | 03 Jul 18 08:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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oooooof ◴[03 Jul 18 09:00 UTC] No.17448560[source]▶
What is it? The link points to a discussion more deep than I’m willing to read.
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hultner ◴[03 Jul 18 09:05 UTC] No.17448584[source]▶
You're allowed to do assignments inside of expressions

E.g.

    if(x:=f() is not None):
        print(x)
You can read more about it here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
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majewsky ◴[03 Jul 18 09:22 UTC] No.17448672[source]▶
I'm immediately skeptical after seeing this example because I'm not sure if the first line parses as:

  if (x := f()) is not None:
or as:

  if x := (f() is not None):
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1. icebraining ◴[03 Jul 18 09:42 UTC] No.17448788[source]▶
:= overrules everything except a comma, so it's the latter. Still, I agree it's potentially confusing.