Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment:
Please submit this kind of ideas to the python-ideas mailing list, to trigger a
discussion and get valuable feedback:
http://www.python.org/community/lists/#python-ideas-mailing-list
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nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc
resolution: - invalid
status:
New submission from Erik VanderWerf:
I don't know if this has been suggested before, none of my searches returned
anything. Sorry if it has been rejected already.
Anyone who has used Python at least a little bit will know that you can use +=,
-=, *=, and /= to apply a change to a variable and
