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Re: increment/decrement operators

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On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 13:56:47 +0100
Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> wrote:
> x += y works. (Well, it should.)

It does, even on objects other than numbers.

>>> x = "abc"
>>> y = "def"
>>> x += y
>>> x
'abcdef'

> x++ doesn't.

No but it's just a special case of the above.

>>> x = 1
>>> x += 1
>>> x
2

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increment/decrement operators Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-12-05 12:40 +0000
  Re: increment/decrement operators Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2015-12-05 13:56 +0100
    Re: increment/decrement operators Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-12-05 14:14 +0000
    Re: increment/decrement operators "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@VybeNetworks.com> - 2015-12-05 09:41 -0500
    Re: increment/decrement operators Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-05 10:43 -0500
      Re: increment/decrement operators BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-12-05 17:18 +0000
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