Brett Cannon

For the next post in my syntactic sugar series I want to cover subscriptions. It's quite possible you're not familiar with this formal term, but you are probably familiar with the syntax: the

As part of my series on Python's syntax, I want to tackle the from clause for raise statements. In case you're unfamiliar, raise A from B causes B to be assigned to A.

In the last post of my syntactic sugar series, I showed how you can get away with not having elif and else clauses on an if statement. It turns out you can use

While I won't be attempting to unravel if statements entirely as part of my blog series on Python's syntactic sugar, I will be attempting to partially unravel them by showing how you don't

I have previously unravelled for loops, and so the concept of looping has already come up in this blog post series of removing the syntactic sugar from Python. But one aspect of looping