Python 3.8.0a1 is now available for testing

Re:Python 3.8.0a1 is now available for testing by legostormtroopr on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:56PM (#19081020)

I can't take a programming talk seriously if it declares in giant font "Less lines are better" (slide 38).

Any C program can be written as a single line, with no linebreaks - that doesn't make it "better" by any metric.

Python is built around its readability, and slide 44:

> group = match.group(1) if (match := re.match(data)) else None

is anything but. 'match' is assigned after its first use, and it took me far to long to mentally parse what it was doing.

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Re:Python 3.8.0a1 is now available for testing by maceurt on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:44PM (#19097550)

C is different than python though. Python already forces readability things like forcing indent and newline. In most scenarios making a python program in as few lines as possble will make the program more readible.

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