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On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 9:34 PM, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> The act of "fixing" it, as you say, would change the semantics of the
>> language in a fundamental and major way.  Strings by definition are
>> immutable in Python.
>
>
> Yet INPLACE_ADD is a valid byte-code even when operating on strings.

That's because INPLACE_ADD is a valid byte-code regardless of what
it's working on.

ChrisA