[Python-ideas] Assign-in-place operator

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 12:47, Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-04 13:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote:> As far as I can tell, there
> is no difference between your proposal
> > and the OP's proposal except you have changed the name of the dunder
> > from __arrow__ to __iassign__.
>
> I never claimed that there was a difference. I just tried to clarify
> what the original poster asked and put it in a wider context, because
> the original post was way too much focused on hardware stuff.

... and I'll confirm that for me at least, rephrasing the request this
way did help me understand the proposal better.

(I'm neutral on whether it's a good idea, though)

Paul