[Python-Dev] In-place operators
Hrvoje Niksic
hrvoje.niksic at avl.com
Wed Mar 18 12:47:18 CET 2009
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Certainly, the doc string is wrong:
>
> isub(a, b) -- Same as a -= b.
>
> That's not quite the same - you would have to write
>
> a = isub(a, b) -- Same as a -= b.
It seems a perfectly fine solution is simply to fix the docstring,
exactly like that:
a = isub(a, b) -- Same as a -= b.
This both corrects the error when using isub with immutable types and
educates user as to how a -= b actually works.
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