one of the few things i miss from C is being able to use assignment in expressions. that's the only thing, really. also there's no switch/case, you have to use a dictionary of functions instead, although i rarely need that, usually i just use elif.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On May 21, 1:47 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Although that solution is pretty, it is not the canonical solution >> because it doesn't cover the important case of "if" bodies needing to >> access common variables in the enclosing scope. (This will be easier >> in Python 3 with 'nonlocal', though.) The snippet posted by Diez is >> IMHO closer to a canonical solution to this FAQ. > > Hello everybody, > > thanks for the various answers. I'm actually pretty puzzled because I > expected to see some obvious solution that I just hadn't found before. > In general I find Python more elegant and syntactically richer than C > (that's where I come from), so I didn't expect the solutions to be a > lot more verbose and/or ugly (no offense) than the original idea which > would have worked if Python's assignment statement would double as > expression, as in C. > > Thanks again, > robert > > PS: Since I'm testing only three REs, and I only need the match > results from one of them, I just re-evaluate that one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list