I doubt it, it seems way too specialised to be worth making into a language feature.
If you want to, you can write a function: def limits(a, b): return a+b, a-b Paul On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 14:55, <yah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was wondering on whether there is any interest in introducing a > "plus-minus" operator: > > Conceptually very simple; instead of: > > upper, lower = a + b, a - b > > use instead: > > upper, lower = a +- b > > In recent projects I've been working on, I've been having to do the above > "plus minus" a lot, and so it would simplify/clean-up/reduce error potential > cases where I'm writing the results explicitly. > > It isn't a big thing, but seems like a clean solution, that also takes > advantage of python's inherent ability to return and assign tuples. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/MCAS5B63Q6ND74GEBP2N3OF3HLISSQMA/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XYRRZPCPWF6VJTBX3MAWCIQEWXJC5F3X/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/