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Pep8 doesn't speak to the walrus

See original GitHub issue

Description

Pep8speaks doesn’t like walrus operators.

Expected behavior

Now that we are py3.8+ (#11934), this should not trip up the checker.

Actual behavior

Pep8speaks flags := as invalid syntax.

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/12136#issuecomment-912842320

Steps to Reproduce

Push code with a := to astropy.

System Details

N/A.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

bsipoczcommented, Sep 8, 2021

flake8 does much more than pycodestyle so there shouldn’t be a downgrade switch, the early adoption of walrus doesn’t worth it imo. For cases like this, do patch upstream.

1reaction

pllimcommented, Sep 8, 2021

So a walrus in the codebase wouldn’t make future PRs error, right?

Theoretically, no.

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