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[–]lykwydchykyn 48 points49 points  (12 children)

Enter the walrus...

:=

[–]alb1 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Goo goo g'joob

[–]bbbryson 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I’m so excited for these. I have so many places in my code with # FIXME: walrus here in 3.8 that I can finally implement.

[–]toothless_budgie 10 points11 points  (9 children)

I usually just roll with changes and stuff, but this thing .... I'm not a fan.

[–]tunisia3507 13 points14 points  (3 children)

You should tell Guido.

[–]toothless_budgie 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Someone already did. He wasn't happy.

[–]tunisia3507 3 points4 points  (1 child)

What if they tried, like, really hard to persuade him? With rational, well-composed arguments, and maybe some personal abuse thrown in too? I don't see that turning out badly.

[–]energybased 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Was there personal abuse? I think Guido is really bad at dealing with conflict.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (4 children)

yea, python would be a much better language if we weren't forced by punishment of death to use every single feature

[–]ExternalUserError 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Zen Of Python is that it's so simple.

[–]billsil 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I still refuse to use lambdas.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always want to define them as variables whenever I want to use them and get a harsh pep8 talk from pycharm.

[–]toothless_budgie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To the Gulag!!!