[Python-ideas] Anaphoric if

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Andrey Fedorov wrote:

> I imagine this has been covered before, but somehow my Google-foo is failing. What are people's opinions about having an anaphoric-if syntax sugar like:
> 
> if foo() as x:
>     ... x
> 
> meaning
> 
> x = foo()
> if x:
>     ... x
> 
> ?
> 
> I do this a lot, and it seems very un-Pythonically verbose to repeat "x" (especially when a longer variable name is appropriate).

Yes, this has come up before.
FWIW, I'm +1 on the idea,
especially if it can be also applied to while-loops.
It looks very readable

We do have a language moratorium in effect,
so your odds of success are slim.


Raymond

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