Augmented assignment

[Terry Hancock]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:55:42 +0530
Suresh Jeevanandam <jm.suresh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 	Is there any gain in performance because of
> 	augmented assignments.
> 
> 	x += 1  vs x = x+1

Yep. I perform better when I only type names once.
Especially if they are long:

length_of_object_I_must_describe_very_carefully += 1

vs

length_of_object_I_must_describe_very_carefully = length_of_object_I_must_describe_very_carefully + 1

Oh, you mean performance of the computer? ;-)

But Python is all about optimizing the
performance of programmers, not computers!

Seriously,
I think they are usually equivalent internally,
at least for immutable objects.

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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