mrstephengross wrote:
>> What you can't do (that I really miss) is have a tree of assign-and-test
>> expressions:
>> import re
>> pat = re.compile('some pattern')
>> if m = pat.match(some_string):
>> do_something(m)
>
> Yep, this is exactly what I am (was) trying to do. Oh well.... Any
> clever ideas on this front?
>
The syntax is the way it is precisely to discourage that kind of clever
idea. Of course, people nevertheless manage to work around the
restriction to try and make their Python read like some other language
they are more familiar with, and most of the time they get away with it.
The fat remains that in programming there *is* such a thing as being too
clever, and Python's syntax deliberately discourages that.
regards
Steve
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