On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:32:46 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that > > ++n > > and > > --n > > fail silently for numeric-valued n.
What do you mean, "fail silently"? They do exactly what you should expect: >>> ++5 # positive of a positive number is positive 5 >>> --5 # negative of a negative number is positive 5 >>> -+5 # negative of a positive number is negative -5 So does the bitwise-not unary operator: >>> ~~5 5 I'm not sure what "bug" you're seeing. Perhaps it's your expectations that are buggy, not Python. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
