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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:49:03 -0700
From: Stephen Hansen <me+list/python@ixokai.io>
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Subject: Re: relative speed of incremention syntaxes (or "i=i+1" VS "i+=1")
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On 8/21/11 9:37 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> But, +=3D is Python itself adding an unpredictable behavior into the co=
re
> language, with its own base types behaving

=2E.. very differently to fundamental, basic appearing operators.

Editing fail on my part.

Similarly:

> But for Python, all by itself, with nothing but built-in and basic
> types, to have a situation where:
>=20
>     a =3D a + b
>     a +=3D b

=2E.. would be clearer if the second example were "x +=3D y".

> ... does two very distinctly different actions, even if in many or
> even most circumstances the end-result is probably the same and probabl=
y
> fine, is my criticism.
>=20

--=20

   Stephen Hansen
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