Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'd need well-reasoned explanations
My reasoning is essentially the same as what I've already said about "where". To summarise, "given" sounds like something an English-speaking mathematician would write, whereas ":=" doesn't even have an obvious pronunciation. Some variation on "given" just seems greatly more pythonic to me. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/