[Python-ideas] Reverse assignment operators (=+, =-, =*, =/, =//, =**, =%)

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2016-11-12 12:18, João Matos wrote:> Hello,
 >
 > What I propose is not
 > a = +5 (see the space between the = and + sign)
 > but
 > a =+ 5 (no space between the = and + sign, and there is a space between
 > + and 5)
 >
 > Exactly the same notation (only reversed) as the current assignment
 > operators.

	The thing is that a =+ 5 is already valid syntax, and means the same as 
a = +5.  You don't need spaces around operators in Python.  So your 
proposal would have the change the behavior of existing syntax, which 
pretty much makes it a nonstarter.

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