Unravelling assignment expressions
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
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 `if` statements
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
Unravelling Python's classes
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
Unravelling ellipsis
...
[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
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