Why should I switch to Python?

[Charlie Derr]

[Tim Peters]
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~ [Grant Griffin]
~ > Speaking of C, I find myself missing the "x=" operators, and "++".
~ > However, I understand and endorse the reasons Python omits them.
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~ While ++ makes little sense in a language with immutable numbers,

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but why?

The only weird part that i see is that in order to implement it you would
have to do a type check and make sure the operand is of type integer, which
certainly seems to violate python's spirit, but I don't understand what's
relevant about numbers being immutable.   I never write "5++" it's always
"varName++", which can obviously be done the long way with "varName =
varName + 1".   Couldn't this be implemented with assignment in this
fashion?  (not that i would want it to be done, i'm just curious)


	tia,
		~c




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