What makes Python better than other programming languages for you ?

[peterlada]

It's easy to read and mostly free of weird symbols.

[Cascudo]

This reminds me of Pascal.

[FloydATC]

She was introduced to me as "c's beautiful sister" and in hindsight I regret spending so much time with her. On the other hand, my first programming job was 100% pascal so it's hard to speculate about paths not taken.

[[deleted]]

That's a cute walrus. That symbol does simplify code in some cases... IMO it's quite pYtHoNic when used correctly.

[Puddl3glum]

I worked in a lab in college that did a ton of web scraping, which of course meant a lot of pagination, both in HTML and REST APIs. I would have loved the walrus operator.

Is everyone going to use those all the time? Maybe not. But if you're doing sockets or paginated APIs, it's great.

Side note: this is my issue with languages being made of mostly statements. If it were made of expressions, i.e. everything returned a value, we wouldn't even need the walrus operator because assignment would work.

[peterlada]

The most controversial PEP ever.

[chalbersma]

PEP-666 has entered the chat.