"Nick Craig-Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ie > > x += a > > does not equal > > x = x + a > > which it really should for all types of x and a
One would hope so , yes. However, I think that the first form is supposed to update in place, while the second is free to bind a new thing to x > > (That is the kind of statement about which I'm sure someone will post > a perfectly reasonable counterexample ;-) > I don't think its reasonable - its just an accident of implementation.. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
