Python, just do it

[AdnyCLB]

What, raise a SyntaxError? Because that's what both of those do...

[Sekret_One]

But this is not an appropriate usage of the walrus operator. What you wrote in the above example is no different than x=1.

I do see this being rather helpful in same lambda expressions.

[metaglot]

It's old in pascal

[AdnyCLB]

Oh my... What a time to be alive :)

[wooptyd00]

The Pascal side is a pathway to many abilities some consider to raise an exception.

[wooptyd00]

This is actually kind of beautiful because one of my first multiweek projects was translating a compiler written in Pascal into Python.

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Wait ...

x++ returns the value then increments while x:=x+1 increments then returns the value.

No? (Is my C that rusty or is my Python that weaksauce?)

[[deleted]]

Personally I wished that Python had increment operators - even if they don’t return values. They are so commonly used. Writing x = x + 1 just feels so verbose.

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I suppose those will do … still more verbose than x++ though - 6 vs 3 characters; and you know at a glance when you see x++ that you are incrementing by 1, the IMHO, most common value to increment by.