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21 ◴[] No.17516284[source]
As someone who used Python for more than a decade, a few months ago when I saw PEP 572 and that Guido liked it I knew that it would be by far the most controversial one ever.

And I was very concerned that there was no outside community involvement. This is one where there should have been a lot of publicity around, and the community should have been asked (on r/python, r/programming, HN, ...)

It's sad to see this, but it's not surprising to me. In general the Python community at large accepted Guido's decisions, but this one was too much of a shock, and when the python-dev discussions where so heated, you can only imagine the response from outside.

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1. cowpig ◴[] No.17518056[source]
I honestly don't understand why it's so contentious, despite reading the lwn.net article about it[1]. It just looks like some syntactic sugar to me, and I've been in the position where not having that sugar has felt awkward many times writing python.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/757713/