Return value of an assignment statement?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On Feb 23, 3:44 pm, Jeff Schwab <j... at schwabcenter.com> wrote:
>
>      actions = (
>              ('some_string', do_something),
>              ('other_string', do_other_thing))
>
>      def find_action(pattern):
>          for string, action in actions:
>              m = pattern.match(string)
>              if m:
>                  return action
>          return do_default_thing
>
>      find_action(re.compile('some pattern'))()

You don't need to pass the pattern, just pass the match function:

def find_action(match, actions=actions, default_action=None):
    for string, action in actions:
        if match(string):
            return action
    return default_action

find_action(re.compile('some pattern').match)()

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Arnaud