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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Python gets :=
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:47:20 -0500
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On 07/20/2018 04:56 PM, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
> PEP 572 has been accepted:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
> 

I find it amazing that assignment has just been added
to a language created almost 30 years ago.

Was not a variable assignment something already
known in those dark ages back in 1989 when Python was
designed?

--Nasser