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[Python-Dev] assignment expressions: an alternative proposal

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 11:56:17 EDT 2018 
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

>> When I compare to variables from outer scopes they *usually* are on
>> the *right* side of '=='.
>
>
> You mean something like
>
>   if 2 == x:
>
> ?  I never write code like that, and I haven't seen it, either.

Hm. I mean this:

   const = 'something'

   def foo(arg):
     if arg == const:
        do something

Note that "const" is on the right side of "==".

Would you write this as

   def foo(arg):
      if const == arg:

? ;)

Yury
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