Hello, I have an if-elif chain in which I'd like to match a string against several regular expressions. Also I'd like to use the match groups within the respective elif... block. The C-like idiom that I would like to use is this:
if (match = my_re1.match(line): # use match elsif (match = my_re2.match(line)): # use match elsif (match = my_re3.match(line)) # use match ...buy this is illegal in python. The other way is to open up an else: block in each level, do the assignment and then the test. This unneccessarily leads to deeper and deeper nesting levels which I find ugly. Just as ugly as first testing against the RE in the elif: clause and then, if it matches, to re-evaluate the RE to access the match groups. Thanks, robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
