Nick Coghlan wrote: [...]
If the right hand side of 'as' permitted the same forms as are going to be permitted for the 'as' clause in 'with' statements, then Ralf's situation could be handled via:
def __init__(self as s, x as s.x, y as s.y, z as s.z): pass
Essentially, it allows arguments to be given two names - a public name (before the 'as', used for keyword arguments), and a private name (after the 'as', not used for keyword arguments, allows easy shorthand aliasing of self, unpacking of tuple arguments, and easy assignment of instance variables).
There once was a suggestion like this on c.l.py, expanding this to other statements, like: if re.match('a.*b', text) as m: # do something What has become of this? It seems to be a wanted feature, and while I concur that classic 'C-style' assignment-as-expression is undesirable (because of the =/== bug-source), this would be a way, wouldn't it? Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly valid!