On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:38:20 +0000, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > >(I'm not sure how this all applies to the loop_node.next example, but >even here I don't count the "." as an operator, but syntax.
Neiter the language. The dot symbol is a delimiter in the python grammar. Not an operator. And also defined as a delimiter in the official documentation, right after operators. Meanwhile augmented assignment is governed by the `augassign` nonterminal. An addition to its list would result in a non backwards compatible new syntactic sugar feature. This would mabe not be a big issue between 3.X and 2.X, but would, I reckon, be against the compatibility rules between 3.X versions. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list