Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8
by theli0nheart on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:06PM
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Disagree. In my experience (albeit, not very long, been writing Python since 2007 or so), assigning to a value and checking for truthiness is a very common pattern.
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Very common pattern, confusing nonetheless. It does two different things at once where traditionally Python is explicit and only does one thing at once.