Augmented assignment (ie. += and friends) for Python!

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> You can read about it and find a patch here:
> 
>     http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/aug-patch.html
> 
> Questions, comments, flames, praise, abuse - all welcome.

Well, that provoked a lot of noise, didn't it?

Undeterred I have put a new version of the patch on starship.  The
main change is to support more operators; I now support

+= -= *= /= %= &= ^= |= <<= >>= **=

(does C have &&= and ||=?  I can't remember, and Python's not getting
them anyway).

The patch also contains the changes to the built grammar, so you don't
need to rebuild it to try the patch, but it's bigger.

Cheers,
M.

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