Augmented Assignement (was: Re: PEP scepticism)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Steve> ... (and nobody id going to *force* you to use augmented
    Steve> assignments).

Bingo.  Nobody's going to force people to use them in all their glory
either.  I'm quite happy to use "x += 1" where I know x is an int and ignore
the other cases because the semantics just aren't as clear to me and can
shift with every new class that implements __iadd__ and friends.

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