How best to write this if-else?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:02:46 -0400, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> pisze:

[...]
> Is there really no more straight-forward way to do what I want?

regexps = map(re.compile, ['...', '...', '...'])
# Or in Python >= 2.0:
# regexps = [re.compile(r) for r in ['...', '...', '...']]

for r in regexps:
    m = r.match(line)
    if m:
        text = m.group(1)
        break
else:
    # None matched.

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