[issue21358] Augmented assignment doc: clarify 'only evaluated once'
Martin v. Löwis
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Apr 26 23:03:57 CEST 2014
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
This is not limited to dictionaries. Augmented assignment *always* involves a read operation and a write operation.
So Antoine's remark in msg215573 is more general;
a.x += 1
has a get and a set, and even
x += 1
has a get and a set.
I still agree that the original statement is confusing. It (implicitly) claims that
x = x + 1
evaluates x twice, which it does not. Instead, x is only *evaluated* once, and then written to. Only if x has subexpressions, they get evaluated only once ("evaluation" being the thing that produces a "value").
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