[Python-ideas] Modern language design survey for "assign and compare" statements

[Daniel Moisset]

On 21 May 2018 at 12:05, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the analysis, but I'm afraid I must disagree with your
> recommendation.  It was the thought I first had when Chris came out with
> his first draft of the PEP several months ago, but it's not enough to cope
> with my usual use cases.  What I normally want is the Python equivalent of:
>
>   while ((v = get_something()) != INCONVENIENT_SENTINEL)
>     do_something(v);
>
> The condition expression itself is not what I want to capture; I need a
> subexpression, which the "as" syntax won't give me.
>
>
That use case should be covered by

for v in iter(get_something, INCOVENIENT_SENTINEL):
    do_something(v)




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