Return value of an assignment statement?

[Paddy]

On 21 Feb, 23:33, "bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com"
<bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What you can't do (that I really miss) is have a tree of assign-and-test
> > expressions:
>
> >         import re
> >         pat = re.compile('some pattern')
>
> >         if m = pat.match(some_string):
> >             do_something(m)
> >         else if m = pat.match(other_string):
> >             do_other_thing(m)
> >         else:
> >             do_default_thing()
>
> What you want is:
>
> for astring, afunc in ((some_string, do_something), (other_string,
> do_other_thing)):
>     m = pat.match(astring)
>     if m:
>         afunc(m)
>         break
> else:
>     do_default_thing()

The Bruno transform? :-)