Equivalent in Python?

[Aahz]

In article <f7jz8.18268$Wd2.881746 at wagner.videotron.net>,
Vincent Foley  <vinfoley at iquebec.com> wrote:
>
>What's the Python equivalient of Perl's "a"++; ?

There isn't any direct equivalent.  Python strings don't have any kind
of increment magic associated with them, but you could create a class
that worked like this:

    s = AutoIncrementString('a')
    s.increment()                   # or even s.inc()

However, if you designed it do this:

    s = AutoIncrementString('a')
    s += 1

you'd get harsh comments from the vast majority of Python programmers.
Bad juju, mixing strings and numbers without explicit conversion.
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