On Nov 10, 9:44 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > > r didn't actually give a good example. Here is case where it's > > actually useful. (Pretend the regexps are too complicated to be > > parsed with string method.) > > > if re.match(r'go\s+(north|south|east|west)',cmd) as m: > > hero.move(m.group(1)) > > elif re.match(r'take\s+(\w+)',cmd) as m: > > hero.pick_up(m.group(1)) > > elif re.match(r'drop\s+(\w+)',cmd) as m: > > here.put_Down(m.group(1)) > > The effect of this proposal can already be accomplished with a 'pocket' > class
Nice metaphorical name. > as has been posted before and again in a slightly different form > in Steve's post. I'm well aware of it, but I didn't think the proposal deserved to be called stupid when it was a reasonable solution to a real need, even though a workable and less intrusive option exists. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
