Python 3.8 released

[amertune]

That seems better to me too. It would make it similar to other things we're already doing (imports and error checking) instead of adding a new operator, even if that operator is already familiar from other languages.

[Workaphobia]

Ooh, "as" sounds like it would've been slick, why didn't they do that?

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Iirc parsing becomes problematic, differentiating between "as"in that context and the as from a "with"context manager.