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

[Courageous]

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> > (does C have &&= and ||=?  I can't remember, and Python's not getting
> > them anyway).
> 
> No, C doesn't have them, because the logical operators always return 1 or 0,
> *not* one of their operands, as 'and' and 'or' do in Python. Adding '&&='
> ('and=' ?) and '||=' would be plain silly, because the logical operators do
> *not* modify anything.

I think the originator meant bitwise operators.



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