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From: Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>
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Subject: increment/decrement operators
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:40:57 +0000
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Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to python, and this NG, but it's certainly growing 
on me.

One thing I'm missing is the increment/decrement operator from C, ie 
x++, and its ilk. Likewise x += y.

is there any way of doing this in Python?

TIA, Tony