SyntaxError: can't assign to a function call

[Lawrence Oluyede]

"Fuzzyman" <fuzzyman at gmail.com> writes:

>>>> f() += [4]
> SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
>>>> 

It's obvious that that line gives you a syntax error. += is the increment
operator overloaded for strings and lists and so on. It changes the lhs in
place appending the rhs. In this case the rhs is a function call so... how the
compiler knows how to assign to a function call?

Do the things easily:

- x = f()
- x += [4]

:)

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