Short circuting

[Ed Connell]

Hi,

Consider the following please:  (re_section, re_name, etc are previously
compiled patterns)

                       result1 = re_section.search(line);
                       result2 = re_name.search(line);
                       result3 = re_data1.search(line);
                       result4 = re_data2.search(line);

                       if result1:
                               last_section = result1.group()[18:-5]
                       elif result2:
                               last_name = result2.group(0)[6:-1]
                       elif result3:
                               data[last_section] = {last_name:
result3.group()[13:-5]}
                       elif result4:
                               data[last_section] = {last_name:
result4.group()[17:-5]}

It gets my goat to have to obtain all resultx when I just want the first
that is not None.  (In theory, the number of results can be much longer.)  I
can think of alternatives (raising exceptions), but they all use deep
indenting.

Ideas?

Ed
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