two ideoms at one blow: line-reading and regexp-matching

[Russell Nelson]

There are two Python ideoms that bother me:

    while 1:
        line = file.readline()
        if not line: break

and:

    matched = re.match(r'egexp(.*)', line)
    if matched:
        print matched.group(1)

I'd really, really like it if you could do one(1) assignment within
the boolean expression in a while and an if.  Like this:


    while line = file.readline():

and:

    if matched = re.match(r'egexp(.*)', line):
        print matched.group(1)

I just think it would be easier to read programs if they could be
written like this.  Should I write up a PEP or has this already been
discussed and dismissed?

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