On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:23:31 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: [...] >> >> group = match.group(1) if match := re.match(data) else None >> >> There's no stopping some people from making poor naming choices. Surely >> the standard name for match objects is "mo", not match? > > I was referring to the variable "match" being referenced spatially prior > to its assignment, not to the naming.
Oh. Well, that's the way ternary if works. Not everything in Python uses a strict left-to-right reading order. Just like English really. >> But if people were going to write that, surely they would now write: >> >> match = re.match(pattern, data) >> group = match.group(1) if match else None > > Er, I think you're missing the point of the example from the PEP No, I missed the point *you* were making. I thought you were complaining about the visual confusion of having a variable called match and a method called match. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
