let3 1.0.19

Quick Start

Once you’ve installed, you can really quickly verified that it works with just this:

>>> from let import let
>>> if let(count = len("Hello World!")):
...     print(count)
12

Documentation

In C, Java, and many other languages, it’s possible to assign variables inside of if or while condition statements. This is useful in allowing you to concisely both assign the value, and check whether a condition is met.

This ability doesn’t exist in Python, because of the thought that when people write something like:

if row = db.fetch_results():
    ...

They may have actually meant:

if row == db.fetch_results():
    ...

Personally, I have never made this mistake. It seems far more like a theoretical mistake that could plausibly happen than one that actually happens and warrants removing features, as was chosen in Python.

Anyways, the let function in this module gives you something very close to that ability in other languages. A few examples:

if let(name = longInstanceName.longAttributeName):
    ...

# Yes, db.fetch_results() should just return a generator. No, it doesn't.
while let(results = db.fetch_results()):
    ...

if let(count = len(nameValuePair)) != 1:
    raise Exception(f"Bad amount: {count}")

1.0.19 (2022-01-10)

• Drop support for Python 3.6.

• Copyright year update.

• Setup update.

1.0.17 (2021-10-14)

• Setup update.

1.0.16 (2021-07-19)

• Bugfix: ‘let’ works now also on highest (e.g. module) level.

• Setup general update and improvement.

1.0.15 (2020-10-17)

• Add support for Python 3.8 and 3.9.

• Drop support for Python 3.5.

• Drop support for Python 2.

• Setup: fix an improper dependencies versions.

• Setup general update and cleanup.

• Fixed docs setup.

• Cleanup.

1.0.10 (2019-05-21)

• Update required setuptools version.

• Setup update and improvements.

• This is the latest release that supports Python 2.

1.0.9 (2018-11-08)

• Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.0-3.3

• Update required setuptools version.

1.0.8 (2018-05-08)

• Update required setuptools version.

• Improve and simplify setup and packaging.

1.0.7 (2018-02-26)

• Improve and simplify setup and packaging.

1.0.6 (2018-01-28)

• Fix a bug and inconsistencies in tox.ini

• Update of README.rst.

1.0.3 (2018-01-24)

• Update required Sphinx version.

• Update doc Sphinx configuration files.

1.0.2 (2017-11-18)

• Setup improvements.

• Other minor improvements.

1.0.1 (2017-01-05)

• Creating a fork of Taylor Marks’s let package with a fix allowing to work with Python3 or higher.

• Minor improvements.

Changes of the original let:

1.0.1 (Feb 25, 2016)

• Let now assigns the variables to the global namespace always - never the local namespace. The Python interpreter sometimes optimizes variables within the local namespace - it’s best not to change values behind its back, as it leads to very difficult to discover bugs.

1.0.0 (Feb. 7, 2016)

• Initial commit