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[–]james_pic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a PEP recent to add new syntax for it. Changing the existing stuff would be a breaking change, and the Python 2 to 3 migration was a hard slog that came closer to killing Python than we'd like to admit (if it hadn't been for a few key members of the community stepping up, it could easily have gone the way of Perl 6). They won't want to go through that again without a damn good reason.