Sorry for messing up the quoting. I blame GMail. Only the text starting "Since this thread is dead" was mine.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 8:20 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:12 PM Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't even exist yet, but Googling on > > python operator := > > already returns a directly relevant hit on the first page for me: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26000198/what-does-colon-equal-in-python-mean > > The hits above it are all to overviews of Python operators. Here on > Windows, the interface to the Python doc files in IDLE contains an entry > for each operator, so just typing := in the index search box will > eventually go directly to its docs. If you can't do something similar on > Linux, upgrade to Windows ;-) > > Since this thread is dead and everybody is just posting to get the last > word, I can report that for me, Googling for "Python :=" gives PEP 572 as > the first non-ad hit. Also among the top hits are section 6 (Expressions) > and section 7 (Simple statements) of the Python 3.7.0 docs. Seems there is > at least one thing that Google still does right. :-) > > (Though Bing also has an ironically relevant hit: apart from the above > StackOverflow issue, it found a piece of third party documentation titled > Conditionals and loops. :-) > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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