pythonic equivalent of upvar?

[Richie Hindle]

[David]
> I'm trying to write something with the same brevity 
> as perl's one-liner
> 
> eval "\$$1=\$2" while @ARGV && $ARGV[0]=~ /^(\w+)=(.*)/ && shift;

import sys, re
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    if re.match(r'\w+=.*', arg):
        exec arg
    else:
        break

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Richie Hindle
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