RFC: Assignment as expression (pre-PEP)

[darklord@timehorse.com]

On Apr 5, 6:01 pm, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thun... at gmail.com> wrote:
> darkl... at timehorse.com:
>
> >         else:
> >             my_match = capper_re.match(f):
> >             if my_match:
> >                 capper = capper_re.match(f).group(1)
> >                 if capper == 'JJ' or capper == 'JeffreyJacobs':
> >                     capper = 'Jeffrey C. Jacobs'
> >                 past_title = True
>
>     The assignment to my_match here is not used, so the test can be "if
> capper_re.match(f)" which can then merge up into the previous else as an
> elif dropping one level of indentation.
>
>     Neil

That was a typo.  I meant to reuse my_match in the line "capper =
my_match.group(1)" rather than the line above just so I would not have
to evaluate the regular expression twice.  Sorry for the confusion.

Jeffrey.