Unravelling the import statement
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar
[https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I am going to cover import statements
[https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/simple_stmts.html#
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 boolean operations
As part of my series on Python's syntactic sugar
[https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I am going to cover boolean operations
[https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#boolean-operations]: a
Unravelling membership testing
This post in my series on Python's syntactic sugar
[https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I am going to cover membership testing: in
and not in. As the language reference says
[https:
Unravelling `not` in Python
For this next blog post in my series of Python's syntactic sugar
[https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I'm tackling what would seem to be a very
simple bit of
Unravelling `is` and `is not`
As part of this blog series on Python's syntactic sugar
[https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/], I said in the post on unary arithmetic
operators [https://snarky.ca/unravelling-unary-arithmetic-operators/] that it might