[issue17973] '+=' on a list inside tuple both succeeds and raises an exception

[Ronald Oussoren]

Ronald Oussoren added the comment:

You've got a point there. What about this patch (but then with proper english grammer)?

BTW. Actually fixing this wart would be possible, but at a significant cost: you'd have to change the implementation of LHS += RHS from:

   tmp = LHS
   tmp = tmp.__iadd__(RHS)
   LHS = tmp

to:

   tmp = LHS
   LHS = tmp
   tmp = tmp.__iadd__(RHS)
   LHS = tmp

The odd assignment on the second line would detect that the LHS is immutable in 99+% of use cases before updating the RHS.

My gut feeling is that an implementation of this would have too high a cost (both in runtime performance and in a more complicated compiler), although it would be interesting to actually see a patch.

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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30294/faq-update.patch

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