Syntactic sugar and unpacking of dictionaries

Ideas
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My personal feeling is that saving a line of code on uncommon patterns is not such a big deal.

I personally like the two recent proposals that affect a great many lines of code:

  • the coalescing operator: x otherwise 2 for 2 if x is None else x, and
  • the matching named argument ellision: f(value=) for f(value=value).

If these were rare patterns, I wouldn’t be as positive about them.