[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyone has any idea on why is there no post/pre increment operators in > python ?
Maybe because Python doesn't aim at being a cryptic portable assembly language? That's my guess ;-) > Although the statement: > ++j > works but does nothing That depends on the type of j, and how it implements the __pos__() method. The builtin numeric types (integers, floats, complex) implement __pos__ to return the base-class part of `self`. That's not the same as doing nothing. There is no "++" operator in Python, BTW -- that's two applications of the unary-plus operator. >>> class MyFloat(float): ... pass >>> x = MyFloat(3.5) >>> x 3.5 >>> type(x) <class '__main__.MyFloat'> >>> type(+x) # "downcasts" to base `float` type <type 'float'> >>> type(x.__pos__()) # same thing, but wordier <type 'float'> If you want, you can implement __pos__ in your class so that +a_riteshtijoriwala_object posts messages to comp.lang.c asking why C is so inflexible ;-). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
