Tino Dai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I'm having some problems with get an if block to work.
>
> import re
>
> regex=re.compile('(some expression)')
>
> # What I'm trying to get to work
> if (m=regex.search('some long string')):
> print m.groups()
>
> - The thing that isn't working is the m=regex .... in the if line. Is this
> possible in python?
No. Assignment in Python is a statement, not an expression. It does not
have a value and it can't be used in a conditional. Use
m=regex.search('some long string')
if (m):
print m.groups()
Kents
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