How to do this in Python...

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:08:26PM -0500, Michael Tiller wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I want to be clear about something.  I have no particular fondness for
> the...
> 
> if (a=b) then ...
> 
> "feature" in C.  I agree that *THAT SYNTAX* is confusing.

  When all you're saving is a single line of code, I can't see why it's even
worth discussing at such length.  This is so commonly desired, though, that
a while ago I wrote this... http://intarweb.us:8080/evil/assignment.py
(Un)fortunately, with recent interpreter changes, it no longer works for
code anywhere but at the top-level of a module.

I imagine a similar function could be written that worked with more recent
versions of Python, if one so desired.  I think that if you're going this
route at all, an explicit function call is better than the bizarre list-comp
based solution discussed elsewhere in the thread.

  Jp

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