[Python-Dev] why do we allow this syntax? (original) (raw)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Feb 8 17:05:54 CET 2013


On 08/02/2013 15:42, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2013/2/8 Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk>:

Hi All,

Just had a bit of an embarrassing incident in some code where I did: sometotal =+ somevalue That's just a strange way of expressing sometotal = +somevalue

Indeed, but why should this be possible? When could it do something useful? :-)

Chris

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