Why x+=1 doesn't return x value instead of an object

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2020-10-31, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 1:51 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list
><python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-10-31, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> > Siddhharth Choudhary <siddharth654choudhary at gmail.com> writes:
>> >>I want to know why x+=1 does not return the value of the variable.
>> >
>> >   Which value? The old or the new one?
>> >
>> >   Expressions never return values.
>>
>> Except when they're assignment expressions, when they do.
>
> Expressions DO have values, but assignment is a statement, not an
> expression. (Assignment expressions don't have augmented forms, so
> there's no ambiguity.)

Sorry, could you say that again in English?