assignment expression peeve

[Paul Rubin]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> Indeed, this is one case where I have in fact used the pattern I
> showed in more generic context in the Cookbook, something like (typing
> the code back in from memory):
> 
> class Matcher(object):
>     def __init__(self, pat, *args):
>         self.re = re.compile(pat, *args)
>         self.mo = None

Yes, this is very close to what I ended up doing.  GMTA :)