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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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jVinc ◴[12 Jul 18 18:05 UTC] No.17517114[source]▶
All this over a god damn bikeshed that no one will care one way or the other about 6 months after its implemented. He didn't loose faith after the 2->3 transitioner but but a goddamn assignment operator that works just like so many other languages.

I mean it was bound to happen at some point, but I am really disheartened that it happened in this way.

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kolpa ◴[12 Jul 18 19:37 UTC] No.17517905[source]▶
Python's original "sales pitch" was that it was a clean and simple language. As years go by and more weird stuff is piled in, it becomes less Pythonic.
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1. antt ◴[12 Jul 18 20:45 UTC] No.17518445[source]▶
I forget which book this was from, but when I was learning python back in 2003 a major selling point was 'you can't make assignments in control structures'. Happy days to a physics undergrad who had seen more if(a=3) in C code than he could shake a stick at.

Sometimes less is more. Python is turning into more is less. It doesn't need to be everything to everyone.