On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 08:15, elas tica <elassti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2022 à 22:12:59 UTC+2, Weatherby,Gerard a ecrit : > > No. If the docs say in one place a comma is not an operator, they shouldn’t > > call it an operator in another place. > > > > I’ve submitted a pull request https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/98736 > > -- we’ll have to see what The Powers That Be think. > > > Thanks for the (merged) pull request about the "comma operator"! > > I return to the last two quotes in the Reference Document regarding these > so-called "assignment operators". > > The entry in the glossary explains that the comma symbol is not an operator. > Well, I just realized that this same entry also explains that the = symbol is > not an operator, as you can see by reading the end of their response: > > The same is true of the various assignment operators (=, += etc). They are > not truly operators but syntactic delimiters in assignment statements. > > (glossary entry link: > https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#what-s-up-with-the-comma-operator-s-precedence) > > Talking about an assignment operator in Python is even more confusing > because, since Python 3.8, there is a real assignment operator, namely the > walrus operator. As explained above, the correct expression would be > "assignement delimiter" or "assignement statement" or "assignement symbol". >
Wording is hard. Just ask the SQL standard whether NULL is a value. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
