On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:25:38 +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > a = 1 > a+= 1 # The compiler will probably optimize this and the Python bytecode > interpreter will not rebind 'a' here, just increment the integer in > memory.
No. This is Python, not C. You can't increment integers in memory. Integers are immutable objects, not raw bytes: >>> x = 1 >>> id(x) 150830896 >>> x += 1 >>> id(x) 150830884 -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
