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

[Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton]

On Sun, 14 May 2000 17:25:56 +0200, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>
wrote:

>On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 07:15:21AM +0000, Ben Wolfson wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 May 2000 07:41:18 +0300 (IDT), Moshe Zadka
>> <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> >On Sat, 13 May 2000, Courageous wrote:
>
>> >> Possibly. Puzzled, however, what someone could possibly mean by &&=?
>
>> >Evaluate RHS. If true, do nothing. If false, 
>> >evaluate LHS and assign it to RHS. 
>>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>> Now *that's* counter-intuitive.
>
>That's probably because it's wrong :) The explanation is about ||=, not &&=;
>&&= would be:
>
>Evaluate RHS. If false, do nothing. If true, evaluate LHS and assign it to
>RHS.

Assign it *to the right-hand side*??

Cheers,
Philip
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