On 04 Nov 2005 17:53:34 -0800, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) writes: >> Hm, "the" fix? Why wouldn't e.g. treating augassign as shorthand for >> a source transformation (i.e., asstgt <op>= expr becomes by simple >> text substitution asstgt = asstgt <op> expr) be as good a fix? Then >> we could discuss what > >Consider "a[f()] += 3". You don't want to eval f() twice. Well, if you accepted macro semantics IWT you _would_ want to ;-) Hm, reminds me of typical adding of parens in macros to control precedence in expressions ... so I tried >>> a = [0] >>> (a[0]) += 1 SyntaxError: augmented assign to tuple literal or generator expression not possible ;-/ Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
