Return value of an assignment statement?

[mrstephengross]

> What you can't do (that I really miss) is have a tree of assign-and-test
> expressions:
>         import re
>         pat = re.compile('some pattern')
>         if m = pat.match(some_string):
>             do_something(m)

Yep, this is exactly what I am (was) trying to do. Oh well.... Any
clever ideas on this front?

--Steve