Syntactic Sugar

Brett Cannon is a core developer of Python, with over 1000 commits to CPython as of June 2023.

His talk was a thought experiment: which parts of Python 3.8 syntax are mandatory, and which can be considered syntactic sugar? He found 10 pieces of syntax were mandatory (to name a few: integers, function calls + def, while, raise), and here’s the full analysis. The talk also reviews the Python data model in depth.