PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

This is nice.

I very frequently use something like the following:

    [node.find(SOME_XPATH).get("value") for node in tree if node.find(SOME_XPATH) is not None]

Which I can soon rewrite as:

    [found_node.get("value") for node in tree if (found_node := node.find(SOME_XPATH)) is not None]

There's a certain amount of complexity introduced, but I think removing the duplication makes up for it. This is one of the few remaining cases in Python where I feel like there's not a simple way to avoid repeating myself.

Still fail to see why instead of that there isn't more functional list comprehension, with maps and filters. That way we wouldn't get such problems in the first place.

For more advanced list compherensions, even JavaScript (ES6+) is more readable.

[found_node.get("value") for node in tree if (found_node := node.find(SOME_XPATH)) is not None]

tree.map(node => node.find(SOME_XPATH)).filter(Boolean).map(node => node.get("value"))

I can deal with either language at this level of complexity. Anything more complicated needs more LoC in either language.

What is "node => ", is that valid Python? I'm new to the language and have never seen the => syntax before. The docs for 'map' don't show it either.