C-like assignment expression?

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On May 21, 3:12 pm, "boblat... at googlemail.com"
<boblat... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On May 21, 1:47 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik... at xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> > Although that solution is pretty, it is not the canonical solution
> > because it doesn't cover the important case of "if" bodies needing to
> > access common variables in the enclosing scope.  (This will be easier
> > in Python 3 with 'nonlocal', though.)  The snippet posted by Diez is
> > IMHO closer to a canonical solution to this FAQ.
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> thanks for the various answers. I'm actually pretty puzzled because I
> expected to see some obvious solution that I just hadn't found before.
> In general I find Python more elegant and syntactically richer than C
> (that's where I come from), so I didn't expect the solutions to be a
> lot more verbose and/or ugly (no offense) than the original idea which
> would have worked if Python's assignment statement would double as
> expression, as in C.
>
> Thanks again,
> robert
>
> PS: Since I'm testing only three REs, and I only need the match
> results from one of them, I just re-evaluate that one.

Is it really a lot to change to have it

if my_re1.match(line):
  match = my_re1.match(line)
elseif my_re2.match(line):
  match = my_re2.match(line)
elseif my_re3.match(line):
  match = my_re3.match(line)

?

That reads clearly to me...