Why should I switch to Python?

[Ben Wolfson]

On Thu, 11 May 2000 03:50:27 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com>
wrote:

>Tim Peters wrote:
>> 
>> [Grant Griffin]
>> > Speaking of C, I find myself missing the "x=" operators, and "++".
>> > However, I understand and endorse the reasons Python omits them.
>> 
>> While ++ makes little sense in a language with immutable numbers, += (&
>> friends) can make good sense.
>
>+= and -= would be nice, but I don't understand what you mean by
>"friends" or why python might need them???

The friends of += are -=, *=, /=, %=, |=, &=, ^=, >>= and <<=.

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