PATCH: Augmented assignment

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 10 Jun 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.

Anyone doing *that* isn't  familiar with the pydiom:

s, i = nested_strucre[some_index], another_index
s[i] = s[i] + 1

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Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
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