Documentation/Info on this sign

[Peter Hansen]

Bart Nessux wrote:

> Could someone point me to documentation on this (and similar) signs used 
> in Python:
> 
> +=

http://docs.python.org/ref/augassign.html

> Usage would be:
> 
> x = += len(y)

What do you mean by this?  "Usage would be"...  ?

> Literally, that's "variable x equals 
> 'funky-symbol-that-I-want-to-learn-about' the length of variable y"

Huh?  This doesn't have meaning...  both = and += are assignment
statements, so you can't put one right after the other.

What are you trying to do?

-Peter