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Re: while expression feature proposal

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Date	2012-10-25 09:40 +1100
Subject	Re: while expression feature proposal
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.2801.1351118402.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
> If I could write this as:
>
>   if re_FUNKYPATTERN.match(test_string) as m:
>     do stuff with the results of the match, using "m"

Then you'd be right there with C-like languages where assignment is an
expression :)

while (tok = strtok(blah,blah)) ... do something with tok ...

ChrisA

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Re: while expression feature proposal Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-25 09:40 +1100

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