> 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)
> else if m = pat.match(other_string):
> do_other_thing(m)
> else:
> do_default_thing()
What you want is:
for astring, afunc in ((some_string, do_something), (other_string,
do_other_thing)):
m = pat.match(astring)
if m:
afunc(m)
break
else:
do_default_thing()
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