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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:50:23 -0500
Subject: Re: copy on write
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems there's a distinct difference between a+=b (in-place
> addition/concatenation) and a=a+b (always rebinding), which is sorely
> confusing to C programmers. But then, there's a lot about Python
> that's sorely confusing to C programmers.

I think this is confusing to just about everyone, when they first encounter it.

-- Devin