[Python-ideas] Fwd: quantifications, and tuple patterns

[Ethan Furman]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On 16 January 2012 14:47, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can always add a full-on assignment-as-expression, if you're
>> concerned about that.
>>
>>    if (m := pat.search(data)) is not None:
>>
>> Also, the keyword doesn't have to be "if". I've always read the bar as
>> "such that" or "where".
> 
> I suggested that a while back in this thread (in the form of any(var
> := val for val in itr if pred)). It didn't get much traction

In the matter of := being used for assignment-as-expression... +1!

~Ethan~