On May 21, 1:47 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although that solution is pretty, it is not the canonical solution > because it doesn't cover the important case of "if" bodies needing to > access common variables in the enclosing scope. (This will be easier > in Python 3 with 'nonlocal', though.) The snippet posted by Diez is > IMHO closer to a canonical solution to this FAQ.
Hello everybody, thanks for the various answers. I'm actually pretty puzzled because I expected to see some obvious solution that I just hadn't found before. In general I find Python more elegant and syntactically richer than C (that's where I come from), so I didn't expect the solutions to be a lot more verbose and/or ugly (no offense) than the original idea which would have worked if Python's assignment statement would double as expression, as in C. Thanks again, robert PS: Since I'm testing only three REs, and I only need the match results from one of them, I just re-evaluate that one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
