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, <[email protected]> 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.
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