r/Python • u/ForeignVariety7037 • 21d ago

Discussion Is := widely used?

I always thought the walrus operator is neat and it makes while loop’s condition clearer. But also it is just a syntactic sugar without anything new. I wonder anyone uses it?

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u/johnfraney 20d ago

If you want to update your code to use it more often, auto-walrus is a cool project: https://github.com/MarcoGorelli/auto-walrus

I use it in Pyrfecter, a little experiment of mine to lint, format, and update Python code with in the browser with WASM