PATCH: Augmented assignment

[Russell Wallace]

> invalid.address at 127.0.0.1 (David) wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:39:38 +0200, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >As promised, here is my patch to add augmented assignment (+=, -= and
> > >family) to Python. It's still Work In Progress, and probably requires a
> > >rewrite of some magnitude before Guido will accept it.
> >
> >
> > Why would the Python community want this?  It obfuscates code, in as much
> > that newbies aren't likely to intuite what the symbols mean.

I disagree.  Indeed, I put it to you that

	foo += 1

is *more* intuitive than

	foo = foo + 1

It's not a huge issue, but it makes things that little bit simpler and
more convenient; and "simpler and more convenient" is Python's raison
d'etre, IMO.

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