inline comparison

[Steve Holden]

sam wrote:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 
> 
>> If you really need that sort of dependent matching, there are better 
>> ways to
>> accomplish that in python:
>>
>> for m, name in [self.macro_parser, self.a_parser, self.b_parser, ...]:
>>     mo = m.match(data)
>>     if mo:
>>        break
>>
> Hi, this method looks more elegant.
> However I got the following error:
>     for m, name in [self.macro_parser]
>                                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> What is the valid syntax with this usage?
> 
> Thanks
> Sam
> 
>>
>>         
You've missed the colon off after the "for" statement. I do it all the 
time ...

regards
  Steve
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