In message <4a538a71$0$30236$9b4e6...@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 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. > > I doubt that there are many. Plus, you misspelled them from the more > obvious > > n++ > > and > > n-- > > which *do* fail with a SyntaxError. Funny, you accuse me of "misspelling", when it's _your_ version that fails with errors! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
