Guido van Rossum wrote: >> This is similar to >> >> x = ([1], 2) >> x[0] += [2] >> >> which doesn't currently work either, though it could. > > No it couldn't. You can't assign to x[0]. L += R is defined as L = > L.__iadd__(R) so L must be a valid assignment target. >
Thanks for making that clear. I actually had filed a bug about that behavior (http://python.org/sf/1436226), and from your comment to my proposed patch I inferred that the report was valid, only the patch wasn't. Cheers, Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
