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bpo-38558: Mention `:=` in conditions tutorial (GH-16919)
authorMiss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:27:07 +0000 (15:27 -0700)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:27:07 +0000 (15:27 -0700)
(cherry picked from commit cb2cf06b0aad1851f54999497c1b50c381d1fdd8)

Co-authored-by: Ammar Askar <ammar@ammaraskar.com>
Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst

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@@ -675,10 +675,10 @@ to a variable.  For example, ::
    >>> non_null
    'Trondheim'
 
-Note that in Python, unlike C, assignment cannot occur inside expressions. C
-programmers may grumble about this, but it avoids a common class of problems
-encountered in C programs: typing ``=`` in an expression when ``==`` was
-intended.
+Note that in Python, unlike C, assignment inside expressions must be done
+explicitly with the walrus operator ``:=``. This avoids a common class of
+problems encountered in C programs: typing ``=`` in an expression when ``==``
+was intended.
 
 
 .. _tut-comparing: