On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Prasad, Ramit <ramit.pra...@jpmchase.com>wrote:
> >> while numberOfGrades != gradesEntered:
> >> grade = int(raw_input("Please enter the grade:" ))
> >> gradesEntered += 1
> >> score =+ grade
>
> >Note that += and =+ do different things. I suspect this last line is
> >not doing what you think. Details like this are very important in
> >programming, especially since both forms are valid code, they
> >just do different things!
>
> Could you please expand on that? From playing around on the shell it looks
> like 'B =+ 2 ' always sets B to 2. At first, I thought it was taking it as
> 'B=None+2' but that gave me the error "TypeError: unsupported operand
> type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'int'" So what is actually going on behind the
> scenes?
>
> Ramit
>
+= is a single operator that is equivalent to typing b = b + 2
=+ is two operators put together:
b+=2 is equivalent to b += 2 is equivalent to b = b + 2
b=+2 is equivalent to b = +2 is equivalent to b = 2
b = + 2 is legal syntax, while b + = 2 is not.
HTH,
Wayne
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