auto increment

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:41 PM, monkeys paw <monkey at joemoney.net> wrote:
>> > Does python have an analogy to c/perl incrementer?
>> >
>> > e.g.
>> >
>> > i = 0
>> > i++
>>
>> i += 1
>>
>> If you're doing this for a list index, use enumerate() instead.
>
> There's been discussion of adding i++ to python, but it was felt that the
> small number of saved keystrokes didn't justify the resulting bugs.  I
> agree.

Out of curiosity, what resulting bugs?

Cheers,
Chris