On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > TypeError: 257 is not 257 > > I'm not sure "help" is the right word here ;)
It doesn't help with non-small integers, yes, but the original case was a list. Personally, I don't think there are many situations that would benefit from it, plus it'd be confusing ("I can use += with a list but not a number, why not?!"). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list