On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:00:17 -0800, Aahz wrote:
> It's just too convenient to be able to write
>
> L += ['foo']
>
> without rebinding L.
<nitpick>But ``+=`` does rebind.</nitpick>
Doesn't matter in this case but we've had confused programmers asking
questions here when `L` is a class attribute and it's rebound to the
instance, or if they tried it on a list in a tuple. Extending a list
that's a read only property doesn't work either.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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