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On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:02:24 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Oh, I usually write "i=i+2". It's a bit more clear and becomes the
>    same code anyway. += is more a 'C' thing.

And Python, C#, JavaScript, C++, ...

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

"assignment (+=, -= etc.), comparisons (==, <, >, !=, <=, >=, in, not in, 
is, is not), Booleans (and, or, not)."


There's some benighted language that does not have += etc.  Maybe R. I 
looked at that briefly before deciding anything I could do in R I could do 
in Python without learning new weirdness.