Coding style and Python versions (was Re: Another itertool function?)

Gerhard Häring gh at ghaering.de
Mon Apr 28 10:06:07 EDT 2003


Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <b8hc64$6n2$1 at slb9.atl.mindspring.net>,
> Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>        i = i + 1
> 
> I'm a little curious why you didn't write this as 
> 
>     i += 1
> 
> Any reason (i.e. still need to support 1.5.2) or just habit?  If the
> latter, why haven't you changed your habit?

I use += and friends myself. But one could argue that the ability of the
inplace operators to return new objects is everything but clean.

-- Gerhard




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