[issue16701] Docs missing the behavior of += (in-place add) for lists.
Martin Panter
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Sep 24 23:20:53 CEST 2015
Martin Panter added the comment:
The “s += t” operation assigns the result back to s. So it could involve an extra __setattr__()/__setitem__() call, or an exception trying to modify a tuple item, etc. The extend() and slice assignment versions don’t have this extra stage.
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