Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> Augmented assignment behaves identically to the update method called with a > single positional argument, so it also accepts anything implementing the > Mapping protocol (more specifically, anything with the keys and __getitem__ > methods) or iterables of key-value pairs. This is analogous to list += and > list.extend, which accept any iterable, not just lists. Continued from above: Couldn't link to the specific part but the rationale is explained at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/#specification ---------- nosy: +xtreak -serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39806> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
