Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simply not to introduce special cases I guess. If you write ``x.a > += b`` then `x.a` will be rebound whether an `a.__iadd__()` exists > or not. Otherwise one would get interesting subtle differences with > properties for example. If `x.a` is a property that checks if the > value satisfies some constraints ``x.a += b`` would trigger the set > method only if there is no `__iadd__()` involved if there's no > rebinding.
Note that such constraint is easily invalidated simply with: foo = x.a foo += b -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
