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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:00 +1100
Subject: Re: while expression feature proposal
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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