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

[Ben Wolfson]

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:
>
>> 
>> > No, he didn't, because he knows they're spelt "&=" and "|=" and he
>> > supports them.  Maybe you should check these things before posting?
>> 
>> 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.

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