Augmented assignment (ie. += and friends) for Python!

[Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)]

> Undeterred I have put a new version of the patch on starship.  The
> main change is to support more operators; I now support
>
> += -= *= /= %= &= ^= |= <<= >>= **=
>
> (does C have &&= and ||=?  I can't remember, and Python's not getting
> them anyway).

Hmm. Which operators did Algol68 support? (that's about as far back as I
want to go in programming history looking for validation) My references are
at home, but I can look them up if you like...

(I don't remember what BCPL had either)

	[[reluctant to do *anything* because C does it that way...]

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