Unravelling `async` and `await`
For this post in my Python syntactic sugar series, I am going to cover async and await. Now when I started to think about this post I was worried it was going to
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 the `with` statement
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I want to tackle unravelling the with statement. Looking at the bytecode for a simple with statement, you will notice there are a lot
Unravelling the `pass` statement
This is the next post in my series on Python's syntactic sugar. It's unfortunately been a while since my last post due to Python 3.10 and PyCon US 2021 taking up a
Unravelling `for` statements
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I am going to cover the for statement. As usual, I will be diving into CPython's C code, but understanding or even reading those
Unravelling assertions
In this post, as part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar, I'm going to cover assert statements. Now, the actual unravelling of the syntax for assert a, b is already given to