I’m trying to understand the walrus assignment operator.
Classic while loop breaks when condition is reassigned to False within the loop.
x = True while x: print('hello') x = False
Why doesn’t this work using the walrus operator? It ignores the reassignment of x producing an infinite loop.
while x := True: print('hello') x = False
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Answer
You seem to be under the impression that that assignment happens once before the loop is entered, but that isn’t the case. The reassignment happens before the condition is checked, and that happens on every iteration.
x := True
will always be true, regardless of any other code, which means the condition will always evaluate to true.