Return value of an assignment statement?

[Aahz]

In article <47be994b$0$6538$426a34cc at news.free.fr>,
Bruno Desthuilliers  <bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
>
>FWIW, it's IMHO a real wart - given Python's pretention at readability - 
>that augmented assignement has been implemented that way for lists.

This was debated extensively when augmented assignment was created, and
it was decided that practicality beat purity.  It's just too convenient
to be able to write

L += ['foo']

without rebinding L.
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