[Edu-sig] class notes (post facto)

[Litvin]

At 11:16 PM 7/13/2010, Vern Ceder wrote:
Actually this behavior has been in Python since augmented assignments 
were introduced in version 2.0. The official wording on this (buried 
in the language reference) is (2.7 version, emphasis mine):

Vern,

I was comparing Python 3 with 2.5; the latter doesn't seem to do += 
for lists in place.
Gary Litvin