In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dan Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>has the conciseness of the C statement.  The pre- and post-increment 
>and -decrement in C/C++/Java are very powerful and I miss them in python. 
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Me, too.

Which is, I suspect, evidence for the incompleteness of our Pythonhood.
As Peter Hansen already hinted in this thread, an appetite for the
increment and related operators probably is a symptom that there's an
opportunity nearby to use an iterator or string method or such.  C++
and Java wish they had it so good.
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