> On 7 Sep 2017, at 13:11, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 September 2017 at 11:43, Denis Krienbühl <de...@href.ch> wrote: >> What I would love to see is the following syntax instead, which to me is >> much cleaner: >> >> if computation() as result: >> do_something_with_result(result) > > Hi - thanks for your suggestion! This has actually come up quite a lot > in the past. Here's a couple of links to threads you might want to > read (it's not surprising if you missed these, it's not that easy to > come up with a good search term for this topic). > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-January/013461.html > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-March/003423.html > (This thread includes a note by Guido that he intentionally left out > this functionality) > > In summary, it's a reasonably commonly suggested idea, but there's not > enough benefit to warrant adding it to the language. > > Paul
I see, thank you for digging those threads up. I’ll read them to learn a thing or two :) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
