I recently needed to extract a numeric suffix from a string value in Python. Initially I did the following: import re def extractNumSuffix(value):     return (None if (search:=re.search(‘^\D*(\d+)$’, value, re.IGNORECASE)) is None else search.group(1)) Note that return has a single-line expression. So ...

Was just trying to make a Python 2 script work in Python 3 and at first it seemed I just needed a small change to add missing parentheses to the argument of a couple of print statements. But then another issue came up, it wasn’t understanding the command raw_input(somePrompt) that was occuring at various places […]