I thought it would be fun to write about Python’s value-or operator (sometimes affectionately known as the “walrus operator”) because it brings a lot of more expressive syntax and what the heck moments
Reuse new value assignment in if condition
It is possible to combine value-or (less preferable called walrus) operator with and or or expression which illustrated in this example
This works because ok := len(a) evaluates as a True so it’s possible to stack more expressions after `and` operator.
Likewise you can create even more complex expressions with reference to size
Deriving Let operator prototype
Now let’s try to tweak this further to make these expressions more understandable. We can use let() placeholder function which always returns and evaluates as True. The key feature here that we can embed the walrus operator in the argument of a function call.
Extending the previous example further to multiple variables
Even though I would think twice before using these features it’s been fun to twist this syntax just to explore
