On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > Dan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Not sure if you typo'd that, but that should read: >> >> a += 200000 * 140000 >> print a > > Did you try to run that?
Well, I did, but I had given 'a' a value first. And now I'm thinking that I may have forgotten some of the earlier thread... where I suppose the point was that this doesn't work when 'a' hasn't already been set. I was focusing on = vs += ... So in that case, please ignore me :-) -dan -- Black holes are where God divided by zero. -Steven Wright -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list