On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 9:34 PM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: >> The act of "fixing" it, as you say, would change the semantics of the >> language in a fundamental and major way. Strings by definition are >> immutable in Python. > > > Yet INPLACE_ADD is a valid byte-code even when operating on strings.
That's because INPLACE_ADD is a valid byte-code regardless of what it's working on. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list