relative speed of incremention syntaxes (or "i=i+1" VS "i+=1")

[Stephen Hansen]

On 8/21/11 9:37 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> But, += is Python itself adding an unpredictable behavior into the core
> language, with its own base types behaving

... very differently to fundamental, basic appearing operators.

Editing fail on my part.

Similarly:

> But for Python, all by itself, with nothing but built-in and basic
> types, to have a situation where:
> 
>     a = a + b
>     a += b

... would be clearer if the second example were "x += y".

> ... does two very distinctly different actions, even if in many or
> even most circumstances the end-result is probably the same and probably
> fine, is my criticism.
> 

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