syntactic sugar

"In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar

Unravelling ellipsis

Jan 29, 2022 syntactic sugar

... [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. 😁

Unravelling literals

Jan 21, 2022 2 min read syntactic sugar

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 the same

Unravelling subscriptions in Python

Jan 14, 2022 2 min read syntactic sugar

For the next post in my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] I want to cover subscriptions [https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/expressions.html#subscriptions]. It's quite possible you're

Unravelling `from` for `raise` statements

Jan 8, 2022 2 min read syntactic sugar

As part of my series on Python's syntax [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/] , I want to tackle the from clause for raise statements [https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/simple_stmts.html#

Unravelling `finally` and `else` from `try` statements

Dec 24, 2021 2 min read syntactic sugar

In the last post [https://snarky.ca/unravelling-elif-else-from-if-statements/] of my syntactic sugar series [https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I showed how you can get away with not having elif and else clauses on