[issue43055] Inconsistent behaviour when using walrus operator with 'and'/'or'

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

I think this is pretty clearly the intended semantics. In your first example, what do you propose "print(x)" would produce? Consider:

if False and (x:=input()) != '':
  pass
else:
  print(x)

We cannot change the semantics to now call input(), or any function with side effects, just to do the assignment to x.

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nosy: +eric.smith

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