Alan G Isaac wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">On
6/25/2010 1:14 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
the default behavior of += is to assign a new object with the new value,
rather than changing the previous object.
a = []
temp = a
a += [2]
temp
[2]
Alan Isaac
I said "default", not "only" behavior. I suspect list provides an
__iadd__ method to provide this ability. Integers do not, and
therefore neither does the object the OP was asking about.
DaveA
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