On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:52 PM Juancarlo Añez <apal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The idea is to introduce new syntax for the list.append() method. >> >> mylist[] = item >> > > For all practical purpose, it would be enough to define that the > expression: > > mylist += [item] > > gets optimized to mylist.append(item). > Unfortunately, that would create yet another special case of operators breaking the rules. Most operators invoke magic methods. This would prevent ``+=`` from invoking ``__iadd__`` for lists, since the right-hand side would need to be compiled differently. It's similar to why ``and`` and ``or`` keywords can't have magic methods.
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