On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote:
> This example makes me want “if expr as name:” (same semantics as ‘with’,
> and the name is always bound to the expression result regardless of
> truthiness), but doesn’t move me on assignment expressions.
>
In reality there often are other conditions being applied to the match for
which `if expr as name` is inadequate. The simplest would be something like
if ...:
<something>
elif (m := re.match('(.*):(.*)', line)) and m.group(1) == m.group(2):
<whatever>
And the match() call may not even be the first thing to check -- e.g. we
could have
elif line is not None and (m := re.match('(.*):(.*)', line)) and
m.group(1) == m.group(2):
--
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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