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This is my favorite change in this release and cause me to upgrade to the RC version a few days ago. It's a huge QoL improvement for so much code I write.

I'm also a fan of the walrus operator. These are small, rare, clear, useful, idiomatic new features, in my opinion.




It is outstanding that that the new features have an audience.

One frets that Python could become a victim of 'featuritis' as the devs try to shop for a new kitchen sink for each release.


I personally feel walrus operator is a much more prominent improvement, considering how prevalent it can be used (like, I use it in almost every single `re.search()`, and at least half of conditional list comprehensions and `while`), while I don't find the old way of updating dict (`{a, b}` etc.) too bad.

But of course, both are very welcomed!




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