bpo-36541: lib2to3: Support named assignment expressions by thatch · Pull Request #12702 · python/cpython

@thatch

There are two copies of the grammar -- the one used by Python itself as
Grammar/Grammar, and the one used by lib2to3 which has necessarily diverged at
Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt because it needs to support older syntax an we want it
to be reasonable stable to avoid requiring fixer rewrites.

This brings suport for syntax like `if x:= foo():` to match what the live
Python grammar does.

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request

Apr 2, 2020
There are two copies of the grammar -- the one used by Python itself as
Grammar/Grammar, and the one used by lib2to3 which has necessarily diverged at
Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt because it needs to support older syntax an we want it
to be reasonable stable to avoid requiring fixer rewrites.

This brings suport for syntax like `if x:= foo():` to match what the live
Python grammar does.

This should've been added at the time of the walrus operator itself, but lib2to3 being
independent is often overlooked.  So we do consider this a bugfix rather than enhancement.
(cherry picked from commit 3c3aa45)

Co-authored-by: Tim Hatch <tim@timhatch.com>

miss-islington added a commit that referenced this pull request

Apr 2, 2020
There are two copies of the grammar -- the one used by Python itself as
Grammar/Grammar, and the one used by lib2to3 which has necessarily diverged at
Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt because it needs to support older syntax an we want it
to be reasonable stable to avoid requiring fixer rewrites.

This brings suport for syntax like `if x:= foo():` to match what the live
Python grammar does.

This should've been added at the time of the walrus operator itself, but lib2to3 being
independent is often overlooked.  So we do consider this a bugfix rather than enhancement.
(cherry picked from commit 3c3aa45)

Co-authored-by: Tim Hatch <tim@timhatch.com>

thatch added a commit to thatch/cpython that referenced this pull request

Apr 3, 2020
There are two copies of the grammar -- the one used by Python itself as
Grammar/Grammar, and the one used by lib2to3 which has necessarily diverged at
Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt because it needs to support older syntax an we want it
to be reasonable stable to avoid requiring fixer rewrites.

This brings suport for syntax like `if x:= foo():` to match what the live
Python grammar does.

This should've been added at the time of the walrus operator itself, but lib2to3 being
independent is often overlooked.  So we do consider this a bugfix rather than enhancement.

(cherry picked from commit 3c3aa45)

thatch added a commit to thatch/cpython that referenced this pull request

Apr 3, 2020
There are two copies of the grammar -- the one used by Python itself as
Grammar/Grammar, and the one used by lib2to3 which has necessarily diverged at
Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt because it needs to support older syntax an we want it
to be reasonable stable to avoid requiring fixer rewrites.

This brings suport for syntax like `if x:= foo():` to match what the live
Python grammar does.

This should've been added at the time of the walrus operator itself, but lib2to3 being
independent is often overlooked.  So we do consider this a bugfix rather than enhancement..
(cherry picked from commit 3c3aa45)

Co-authored-by: Tim Hatch <tim@timhatch.com>

gpshead pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Apr 3, 2020
) (GH-19317)

lib2to3: Support named assignment expressions (GH-12702)

There are two copies of the grammar -- the one used by Python itself as
Grammar/Grammar, and the one used by lib2to3 which has necessarily diverged at
Lib/lib2to3/Grammar.txt because it needs to support older syntax an we want it
to be reasonable stable to avoid requiring fixer rewrites.

This brings suport for syntax like `if x:= foo():` to match what the live
Python grammar does.

This should've been added at the time of the walrus operator itself, but lib2to3 being
independent is often overlooked.  So we do consider this a bugfix rather than enhancement.

(cherry picked from commit 3c3aa45)

Co-authored-by: Tim Hatch <tim@timhatch.com>