Why not a, b += i, j? (augmented assignment via tuple unpacking)

[Greg Ewing]

Jeff Epler wrote:

> but in that case, what is
>     a, b += t
> equivalent to?


Obviously it's

    a, b = iadd(a, t[0]), iadd(a, t[1])

> What about
>     t += a, b


This is already meaningful:

    t = iadd(t, (a, b))

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
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