Re: [Python-ideas] x )= f as shorthand for x=f(x)

On Nov 9, 2007 7:39 AM, Boris Borcic bborcic@gmail.com wrote:

Title says it all. Got used to += et al. My mind often expects augmented assignment syntax to exist uniformly for whatever transform.

I'm not really a Guido channeler, but I'd guess this has about a 0% chance of ever making it into Python.

Function calls in Python are indicated by () following the function name. Your proposal puts the parentheses (or one of them) *before* the function name. Breaking the consistency here seems like an *extremely* bad idea.

STeVe