On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > Multiple times, I've seen someone want something like what C-style > languages offer where assignment is done in a test, something like > > if (m = re.match(some_string)): > do_something(m)
If you want a language where you can do this sort of thing, but the semantics are like Python's (first-class complex objects, garbage collection, references instead of pointers, pass-by-object, etc), check out Pike. Its syntax is very much C's, or C++'s or Java's if you prefer, but it functions very much the way Python does. You can even - and you can't do this in C or, to my knowledge, C++ - declare a variable inside an if, which is valid only in the body of that if: if (array m = Regexp.split2(some_pattern, some_string)) do_something(m); (Minor difference: Regexp.match() just returns boolean true or false, but .split2() is more like Python's .match(). I'm not sure why there's the difference.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list