Augmented assignment augmentation?

[Emile van Sebille]

"Manus Hand" <mjhand at concentric.net> wrote in message
news:39CAE8B9.C53FBF98 at concentric.net...
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> So that:
>    line = line.upper()
> could be written:
>    line .= upper()
>

Why not take it a step further to match list sorts:

    line.upper()

Or allow the in place list functions with augmented
assignment:

    myList.sort()
becomes:
    myList .= sort()


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Emile van Sebille
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