On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 06:11, Ram Rachum <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:01 PM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 21 Oct 2023 at 21:57, Ram Rachum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What about an if with the match inside it? >> >> if m := re.match(...): >> ... >> >> That's one of the motivating examples behind the walrus after all. > > > I love that, but it mostly makes sense for "if there's a match do this, > otherwise do that" where most cases fall into "I'm absolutely sure there's a > match here and here's what we should do with that match", and when that > "absolutely sure" fails, the proper way to deal with that is by raising an > exception. >
Oh, you mean like AttributeError? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CAG7AI2MKNSB6RTGHBYLQSD6MAOQO3AN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
