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Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 13:39:46 -0600
Subject: Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience
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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/05/2015 16:20, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>
>> Potential dangerous bug introduced by programming in Python as if it
>> was C/Java. :-(
>> I used:
>>      ++tries
>> that has to be:
>>      tries += 1
>>
>> Are there other things I have to be careful on? That does not work as
>> in C/Java, but is correct syntax.
>>
>
> Not dangerous at all, your test code picks it up.  I'd also guess, but don't
> actually know, that one of the various linter tools could be configured to
> find this problem.

pylint reports it as an error.