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[Mats Wichmann]

On 3/26/19 12:26 PM, Matthew Herzog wrote:
> elif fileDate = datetime.strptime(name[0:8], DATEFMT).date():
>                    ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

are you assigning (=) or comparing (==)?

you can't do both in one statement because of the side effect implications.

[except that starting with Python 3.8 you will be able to (see PEP 572),
but that will be a brand new operator,  := ]