[Python-Dev] In-place operators

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I give up.  My original question was whether anyone thought these
> were a good idea. Look's like the answer is yes,

Correct.

> everyone is happy with
> the functions and are glad they were added in 2.5.

No. I don't really care - I don't use them, nor do I use anything
else of the operator module (so I wouldn't miss it if it was
removed entirely). I would object to their removal, though,
because it would hurt my sense of symmetry.

Regards,
Martin

P.S. If anything was to be removed, I would remove the in-place
operations altogether; i.e. a+=b should always be a=a+b. Allowing
them to be in-place complicates matters for little added value.