Augmented Assignment (was: Re: PEP scepticism)

[Courageous]

>I don't always have the opportunity to talk to people and explain
>confusing things to them. In one class I gave, a guy let out a gasp when
>he came to understand the reference rules. He said that that was what
>had prevented him from coming to understand Python the first two times
>he tried. Now I think we've made life harder for guys like that to save
>Numeric Python users from typing a method call for their mutations.
>That's a poor trade-off.

Sure; I can buy this argument. I'm not a big fan of the ongoing lexical/
grammatical expansion of Python.

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