Re: Assignment-in-conditional

xamdam wrote:
I am not sure if this came up before, but I would love to have an
'assignment-in-conditional' form in python, e.g

pat = re.compile('something')

if m = pat.match(s):
m.group(1)

Of course there is some concern about accidentally using '=' instead of
'=='. One possible solution is to do what the 'with' statement does:

if pat.match(s) as m:
...

a little ugly but not too much worse that with itself..

what do you guys think?

It has been proposed before (a few times even), and Guido doesn't like it.

Georg
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