Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I think the confusion of augmented assignments is not worth > the benefit of saving typing a couple of characters. I think Guido's > first decision, to leave += etc out of the language, was the right > decision.
It quite helpful to be able to say foo['bar'+lookup(baz)][blob(a)+frob(b)] += 1 without having to split it into separate statements to avoid repeating the function calls and their possible side effects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
