Unexpected result for list operator "+="

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:05:52AM +0200, Erno Kuusela wrote:
> In article <mfW46.227356$U46.7026522 at news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "Greg
> Jorgensen" <gregj at pobox.com> writes: A
> 
> | Assignment of immutable objects (numbers, strings, tuples)
> | essentially makes a copy of the object.  Assignment of mutable
> | objects (lists, dictionaries) creates a new reference to the
> | original object.

> actually (non-augmented) assignment is always just about references, even
> with immutable objects.

actually *augmented* assignment is, too. *everything* is about references :)

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