[Python-ideas] Anaphoric if

[Andrey Fedorov]

I imagine this has been covered before, but somehow my Google-foo is
failing. What are people's opinions about having an anaphoric-if syntax
sugar like:

if foo() as x:
    ... x


meaning

x = foo()
if x:
    ... x


?

I do this a lot, and it seems very un-Pythonically verbose to repeat "x"
(especially when a longer variable name is appropriate).

Cheers,
Andrey
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