assignment in if

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

Gary Wessle wrote:
> is there a way to make an assignment in the condition of "if"

No.

> nx = re.compile('regex')
> if x = nx.search(text):
>    funCall(text, x))

Use:

nx = re.compile('regex')
x = nx.search(text)
if x:
     funCall(text, x)

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