While all true, you were replying to someone quoting the movie "Animal House."

Viper, but you knew that.

If you had actual health care that covered anything you could keep it. Christ, can't believe anyone is saying Trump does better lying.

You need to learn what an ad hominem is. If I said that what you said was worthless because you chose a username of buttfuckinpimpnugget that would be ad hominem. To point out that the argument was only supported by a clearly biased source is not an ad hominem.

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Always the same. You can't ever actually defend Trump so whataboutism.

The Trump campaigns internal polling was certainly not public.

Your reading comprehension sucks. Russia influenced the election. Mueller indicted over a dozen Russians in tampering with our elections and would prove it in court if Russia would extradite the individuals (but they obviously won't).

So you don't believe the FBI, CIA, the NSA but you do believe Putin. You completely misrepresent that private polling was public. Are you Trump?

The read case is both the canonical example and the obsolete case as reading now has a pythonic way of being done. However, the loop and a half still happens in other cases.

I miss switch too but overall very happy with Python. At times you can circumvent the lack of switch with a dictionary but...

It isn't like the Trump campaign chairman gave the Russians polling data or anything. And it isn't like every letter letter agency in the US says that Russia meddled in our elections. </sarcasm>

It is intended to avoid the loop and a half.

    line = f.readline()
    while line: ... # process line
            line = f.readline()

vs:

while line := f.readline() ... # process line

The example you stated will remain how that logic flow will work.

They have a history of breaking flashback being UI feature compatible if it somehow inconveniences what they want with Shell. Minimize would not put things at the bottom of the alt-tab stack for over two years when McCann was busy breaking Shell.

And no one before you breathed about COBOL. What the hell does copying and pasting PYTHON have to do with the price of tea in China or COBOL.

Shit, if I had said something about adding whitespace to COBOL (well for flow control as older versions of COBOL were certainly interested in the first 7 characters being blank) then your comment might have some relevance; but because you started a tangent that no one is interested in doesn't mean we don't understand what you are saying.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Which is about copying and pasting Python with whitespace. And now you are blathering on about COBOL. That is moving the goal post. I replied to a message about whitespace AND python. You've brought in makefiles and COBOL. WTF.

Comprehension is not the problem. You changing the goal post would be the problem.

But the parent (grandparent) wasn't talking about COBOL or Makefiles. They were talking about the "issue" of copying code around Python.

I'm not seeing any actual arguments or examples about the utility of punctuation; but if so, lets talk about the utility of whitespace and readability.