Relax Syntax for Augmented Arithmetic?

[andrew cooke]

Not sure if you were saying this, but the underlying technical reason
for this issue is that they are treated as assignment rather than
operators in the language spec -
http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/simple_stmts.html#augmented-assignment-statements

I think this explains why they are not listed in the operator
precedence table http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/expressions.html#summary

I think that's unfortunate in a language with mutable objects, but it
makes the decision seem much less arbitrary...

Cheers,
Andrew