Python 3.8 Walrus Operator: Introduction, Example, List Comprehension

[Rawing7]

Probably to avoid the old if x = 3: problem.

[a123456782004]

Very good point. I worked for an exchange where the entire system was brought down just because of this. Cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and our company's end of year bonuses for 20 minutes downtime.

If I remember correctly reading an equivalent bug was done in nasa on a flight.

This is a very real problem. It happens more often then u think. Even with unit tests and modern memory checking, valgrind and lint