On 8 February 2013 15:39, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just had a bit of an embarrassing incident in some code where I did: > > sometotal =+ somevalue > > I'm curious why this syntax is allowed? I'm sure there are good reasons, but > thought I'd ask...
Because '+' can represent an unary prefix operator just the same as '-': >>> + + -- ++- +- -+ ++3 -3 Oscar _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com