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Discussion on: Python SnakeBytes: The Walrus Operator

 
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Jeremy Grifski • Edited

For sure! I was wondering why they would include the feature because I feel like it goes against Python's design a little bit. For one, it's an expression and a statement which makes it a little ambiguous. Of course, I'm glad that they used a different operator for it.

That said, I just found a really nice example (source):

while chunk := file.read(8192):
  process(chunk)

Now, that's clean!