[Swizec]

Where I've found `?` super helpful in JS/TS and now miss it the most in Python is dealing with nested data structures.

``` if (foo.bar?.baz?.[5]?.bazinga?.value) ```

Is so much nicer than

``` if foo.bar and foo.bar.baz and foo.bar.baz[5] and foo.bar.baz[5].bazinga and foo.bar.baz[5].bazinga.value ```

I honestly don't care which one of those is falsy, my logic is the same either way.

This enables you to ergonomically pass around meaningful domain-oriented objects, which is nice.

Edit: looks like optional chaining is a separate proposal – https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42847

[nonethewiser]

Yes, same experience. As someone who learned on python then got deep into Typsecript, this was a major bummer when returning to python.

Its funny because when I was a beginner in both I strongly preferred python syntax. I thought it was much simpler.

[new_user_final]

As I have pointed in in my other comment, you can use following syntax in python, ugly but better than multiple and (I don't use python anymore)

    if dict.get('key', {}).get('key-nested',{}).get....:

[jon_richards]

Even less pretty for getattr. And then you have a rude awakening about the difference between the missing default behavior of these two functions.

[new_user_final]

You can use following syntax in python, ugly but better than multiple and (I don't use python anymore)

    if dict.get('key', {}).get('key-nested',{}).get....: