On 11 April 2018 at 22:28, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 1:22 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This argument will be strengthened by making the examples used in the >> PEP itself more attractive, as well as proposing suitable additions to >> PEP 8, such as: >> >> 1. If either assignment statements or assignment expressions can be >> used, prefer statements >> 2. If using assignment expressions would lead to ambiguity about >> execution order, restructure to use statements instead > > Fair enough. Also adding that chained assignment expressions should > generally be avoided.
Another one I think should be included (I'm a bit sad that it's not so obvious that no-one would ever even think of it, but the current discussion pretty much killed that hope for me). * Assignment expressions should never be used standalone - assignment statements should *always* be used in that case. That's also one that I'd like to see implemented as a warning in the common linters and style checkers. I'm still not convinced that this whole proposal is a good thing (the PEP 8 suggestions feel like fighting a rearguard action against something that's inevitable but ill-advised), but if it does get accepted it's in a lot better place now than it was when the discussions started - so thanks for all the work you've done on incorporating feedback. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
