Misleading error message?

[Joel Ricker]

    Colin J. Williams wrote in message <3A57CE77.6B1665A at sympatico.ca>...
    [22]+=[int(src + .5) % 7]
    Traceback (SyntaxError: augmented assign to list not possible
    The error appears to be connected with the use of a constant on the lhs,
    as:
    c=[22]
    c+=[2]
    is permitted.

[22] is still a list literal which cannot be assigned to. c[22] is ok
(assuming its in range).

c=[22] just creates a new list, inializing the first entry to 22 and c+=[2]
just appends 2 the end of the list. Nice trick by the way, will have to file
that one away.

Joel

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