[issue1714448] if something as x:

[Steven D'Aprano]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> added the comment:

Matthew suggested ~= instead of -> or "as".

I dislike this because ~= first makes me think of "approximately equal 
to", and then it makes me think of augmented assignment, and only then 
do I remember that although ~ is used in Python for bitwise-not, ~= is 
not a legal augmented assignment.

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