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Comment by fooblitzky | Hacker News Reader

It seems if you use '=' it leads to dangerous programming bugs[1], whereas ':=' somehow prevents those bugs?

It's so that something like this remains invalid syntax, instead of an unpleasant accident.

  x = False
  if x = True:
      sadness()

It's much easier to leave off one = when you meant == than it is to accidentally type :=