On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: >> We should have a separate thread for the most practical, best >> documented, least surprising, and most boring recipe ;-) > > a += b # Adds b to a in-place. Polymorphic - works on a wide variety of > types.
Too surprising to qualify. For some types it modifies a, while for others it replaces a. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
