Hoi. After reading the replies, I think some script / linter etc. is the right thing to do. What's the best linter for Python out there that covers this as well?
At first glance I thought =- was a new assignment operator, and this is what seemed unpythonic to me, to have two operators that were so similar. -Morten On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 5:31 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list < python-list@python.org> wrote: > On 2023-03-13, Morten W. Petersen <morp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was working in Python today, and sat there scratching my head as the > > numbers for calculations didn't add up. It went into negative numbers, > > when that shouldn't have been possible. > > > > Turns out I had a very small typo, I had =- instead of -=. > > > > Isn't it unpythonic to be able to make a mistake like that? > > Why would it be? How could it be? Mandating white-space between > operators would be unpythonic. > > That's nothing anyway - yesterday I had an issue in TypeScript which > confused me for a while which turned out to be because 1 + 1 = 11. > (I thought the whole point of TypeScript was to prevent things like > that...) > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- I am https://leavingnorway.info Videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBlogologue Twittering at http://twitter.com/blogologue Blogging at http://blogologue.com Playing music at https://soundcloud.com/morten-w-petersen Also playing music and podcasting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/morten-w-petersen/ On Google+ here https://plus.google.com/107781930037068750156 On Instagram at https://instagram.com/morphexx/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
