[Python-ideas] Reference variable in assignment: x = foo(?)

[Corey Sarsfield]

I've always found +=, -= and the like to be handy, but I had hoped like so
many other things in python there would be a generic form of this
functionality.

x += 5 could be expressed as x = ? + 5 perhaps.
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