On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just had a bit of an embarrassing incident in some code where I did: > > sometotal =+ somevalue > > I'm curious why this syntax is allowed? I'm sure there are good reasons, but > thought I'd ask...
For the same reason that you can negate a value with: sometotal = -somevalue The unary + and - operators are seldom problematic. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com