On Jul 6, 12:32 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that > > ++n > > and > > --n > > fail silently for numeric-valued n.
What fail? In Python, ++n and --n are fatuous expressions which SUCCEED silently except for rare circiumstances e.g. --n will cause an overflow exception on older CPython versions if isinstance(n, int) and n == -sys.maxint - 1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
