Updates to PEP 505 (#697)

pep-0505.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: None-aware operators
 Version: $Revision$
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: Mark E. Haase <mehaase@gmail.com>, Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
-Status: Deferred
+Status: Draft
 Type: Standards Track
 Content-Type: text/x-rst
 Created: 18-Sep-2015
@@ -60,18 +60,22 @@ Grammar changes
 
 The following rules of the Python grammar are updated to read::
 
-    power: coalesce_expr ['**' factor]
-    coalesce_expr: atom_expr ['??' atom_expr]
+    augassign: ('+=' | '-=' | '*=' | '@=' | '/=' | '%=' | '&=' | '|=' | '^=' |
+                '<<=' | '>>=' | '**=' | '//=' | '??=')
+    term: coalesce (('*'|'@'|'/'|'%'|'//') coalesce)*
+    coalesce: factor ('??' factor)*
+
+    # factor eventually resolved to atom_expr
     atom_expr: ['await'] atom trailer*
-    trailer: '(' [arglist] ')' |
+    trailer: ('(' [arglist] ')' |
               '[' subscriptlist ']' |
               '?[' subscriptlist ']' |
               '.' NAME |
-             '?.' NAME
+              '?.' NAME)
 
-Inserting the ``coalesce_expr`` rule in this location ensures that
-expressions resulting in ``None`` are natuarlly coalesced before they are used
-in operations that would typically raise ``TypeError``. Like ``and`` and ``or``
+Inserting the ``coalesce`` rule in this location ensures that expressions
+resulting in ``None`` are natuarlly coalesced before they are used in
+operations that would typically raise ``TypeError``. Like ``and`` and ``or``
 the right-hand expression is not evaluated until the left-hand side is
 determined to be ``None``. For example::
 
@@ -79,16 +83,31 @@ determined to be ``None``. For example::
     def c(): return None
     def ex(): raise Exception()
 
-    (a ?? 2 ** b ?? 3) == (a ?? 2) ** (b ?? 3)
+    (a ?? 2 ** b ?? 3) == a ?? (2 ** b) ?? 3
+    (a * b ?? c // d) == (a * b) ?? (c // d)
     (a ?? True and b ?? False) == (a ?? True) and (b ?? False)
     (c() ?? c() ?? True) == True
     (True ?? ex()) == True
     (c ?? ex)() == c()
 
+Augmented coalescing assignment only rebinds the name if its current value is
+``None``. If the target name already has a value, the right-hand side is not
+evaluated. For example::
+
+    a = None
+    b = ''
+
+    a ??= 'value'
+    b ??= undefined_name
+
+    assert a == 'value'
+    assert b == ''
+
 Adding new trailers for the other ``None``-aware operators ensures that they
-may be used in all valid locations for the existing equivalent operators.
-However, as the existing evaluation rules are not directly embedded in the
-grammar, we specify the required changes here.
+may be used in all valid locations for the existing equivalent operators,
+including as part of an assignment target (more details below). As the existing
+evaluation rules are not directly embedded in the grammar, we specify the
+required changes here.
 
 Assume that the ``atom`` is always successfully evaluated. Each ``trailer`` is
 then evaluated from left to right, applying its own parameter (either its
@@ -143,6 +162,14 @@ transformation. For example, ``(a?.b ?? c).d?.e`` is evaluated as::
     if _v is not None:
         _v = _v.e
 
+When used as an assignment target, the ``None``-aware operations may only be
+used in a "load" context. That is, ``a?.b = 1`` and ``a?[b] = 1`` will raise
+``SyntaxError``. Use earlier in the expression (``a?.b.c = 1``) is permitted,
+though unlikely to be useful unless combined with a coalescing operation::
+
+    (a?.b ?? d).c = 1
+
+
 Examples
 ========