PATCH: Augmented assignment

Doug Stanfield DOUGS at oceanic.com
Sat Jun 10 17:42:45 EDT 2000


[Christian Tanzer wrote:] 
> > It doesn't obfuscate code looking like:
> > 
> >    nested_structure [some_index] [another_index] = 
> nested_structure [some_index] [another_index] + 1
> > 
> > And it saves more than a few keystrokes.

[Moshe Zadka replied:] 
> Anyone doing *that* isn't  familiar with the pydiom:
> 
> s, i = nested_strucre[some_index], another_index
> s[i] = s[i] + 1

Wow, I like that.  Its great!!!

Could you pass on the link to that storehouse of great pydioms.
I'd like to see more  ;-Q

but-I-guess-the-point-was-there's-usually-already-a-clearer-way-to-write-it'
ly yr's
-Doug-





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