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<div dir="ltr">If you restrict the idea to 'if' and 'while', Why not render this using the existing 'as' form for binding names, already used with 'except' and 'with':<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.800000190734863px">Â Â while learner.get(static_hint) as points:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.800000190734863px">Â Â Â Â learner.feed(f(points))</span><br><div><br></div><div>The equivalent for 'if' helps with the regex matching case:</div><div><br></div><div>Â Â if re.match(r"...") as m:</div><div>Â Â Â Â print(m.group(1))</div><div><br></div><div>I considered proposing these two forms in a PEP a few years ago, but never got around to it. To my eye, they fit syntactically into the language as-is, without introducing new symbols, operators or keywords, are consistent with existing usage, and address two relatively common causes of displeasing Python code.</div><div>Â Â Â Â Â </div></div><div>Robert</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><font color="#0b5394"></font></font></div></div></div></div>
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