=- and -= snag

[Morten W. Petersen]

Hoi.

After reading the replies, I think some script / linter etc. is the right
thing to do. What's the best linter for Python out there that covers this
as well?

At first glance I thought =- was a new assignment operator, and this is
what seemed unpythonic to me, to have two operators that were so similar.

-Morten

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 5:31 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> On 2023-03-13, Morten W. Petersen <morphex at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was working in Python today, and sat there scratching my head as the
> > numbers for calculations didn't add up.  It went into negative numbers,
> > when that shouldn't have been possible.
> >
> > Turns out I had a very small typo, I had =- instead of -=.
> >
> > Isn't it unpythonic to be able to make a mistake like that?
>
> Why would it be? How could it be? Mandating white-space between
> operators would be unpythonic.
>
> That's nothing anyway - yesterday I had an issue in TypeScript which
> confused me for a while which turned out to be because 1 + 1 = 11.
> (I thought the whole point of TypeScript was to prevent things like
> that...)
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