On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:18:01 PM UTC-6, Ian wrote: >> x += y is meant to be equivalent, except possibly in-place and more >> efficient, than x = x + y. > > In an ideal world, the speed of these two codes should be the same, of course > i'm "assuming" that most competent language designers would optimise the > slower version. >
Except that they don't mean the same thing, so it's not an optimization target. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
