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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:55:33 +1000
Subject: Re: Python ++ Operator?
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2011/7/15 Rafael Dur=E1n Casta=F1eda <rafadurancastaneda@gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
> What's the meaning of using i++? Even, does exist ++ operator in python?

++i is legal Python but fairly useless. It's the unary + operator,
applied twice. It doesn't increment the variable.

Now, i+=3D1 IS valid Python, and WILL do what a C programmer expects it to.

ChrisA