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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by RaptorJ on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:57PM (#20464458)
I expect the PEP authors want to avoid the "while chunk == read()" class of bugs

ninjaedit: indeed https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#why-not-just-turn-...

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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by benchaney on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:18PM (#20464609)
And also the converse (but no less dangerous) "if value = true"
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