SyntaxError: can't assign to a function call

[Aahz]

In article <on65021qdcolmvuj0ammt58k35ok14qq46 at 4ax.com>,
Tim Roberts  <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>
>One thing that can be helpful in situations like this is to remember that
>+= in Python isn't quite as "special" as it is in C.  So,
>
>  f() += [4]
>
>is the same as
>
>  f() = f() + [4]
>
>and I think you can see why that is a problem.

Actually, it's not quite the same as the expansion, either:

>>> a=[1]
>>> b=a
>>> a+=[2]
>>> a is b
1
>>> a = a + [3]
>>> a is b
0
>>> a
[1, 2, 3]
>>> b
[1, 2]
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