Python ++ Operator?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 04:06:30 EDT 2011


2011/7/15 Björn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>:
> Pre and post-increments are
> almost always confusing unless they are used as the counter-variable
> inside for-loops.

I agree that they're often confusing (i+++++j) but there are several
places where they're handy.

array[count++]=value;

or the more direct pointer management:

*ptr++=value;

However, Python doesn't work as close to the bare metal, so it doesn't
have such constructs.

ChrisA



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