On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sets RegisterAX to 2. Specifically, positive 2. If you want to > *add* 2, you probably meant to write: > > RegisterAX += 2 > > This also points out a good reason for using spaces around operators, > as "RegisterAX =+ 2" would have caused a SyntaxError and been more > easily detectable.
Err, no. Even with spaces, it works just fine, because unary plus is allowed to be separated from its operand with spaces: >>> x=1 >>> x =+ 2 >>> x = + 3 >>> x 3 However, this is a reasonable call for the abolition of unary plus... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
