[Python-Dev] why do we allow this syntax?

[Donald Stufft]

On Friday, February 8, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just had a bit of an embarrassing incident in some code where I did:
> 
> sometotal =+ somevalue
I'm guessing this gets parsed as sometotal = +somevalue 
> 
> I'm curious why this syntax is allowed? I'm sure there are good reasons, 
> but thought I'd ask...
> 
> Chris
> 
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