Brett Cannon

As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I initially skipped tackling assignment expressions because I made them more complicated than I needed to in my head. 😅 But there is

After the initial posting of my summary post about my syntactic sugar series, I received the following reply to one of my tweets: 🤔 wondering… ‘if/else’ (14 on your list) can be implemented

For the second-to-last post in my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] (the final post will be a summary/conclusion post), I am tackling what I expect is my largest and

... [https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html?highlight=ellipsis#the-standard-type-hierarchy] is the Ellipsis singleton. Shortest syntactic sugar blog post [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] I have written. 😁

In this post of my syntactic sugar series, I want to tackle literals. Now some literals don't really require any code changes and are really just an alternative way to write