Bug in __imul__

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 11 08:55:22 EDT 2001


"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
news:9ihg33$irjha$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de...
> Does it bother anyone that
> a *= 3 + 4
> returns a different value from
> a = a * 3 + 4

Can't speak for others, but personally I would be
more than bothered (I'd be *astonished* as well as
*flabbergasted*) if augmented assignment operators
weren't lower-priority than all ordinary binary
operators.


Alex






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