Re: Python

Roel Schroeven <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:16:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.general
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Op 18/12/2025 om 5:02 schreef c186282:
>   Oh, I usually write "i=i+2". It's a bit more
>   clear and becomes the same code anyway.
I'm going to disagree here. In my opinion i += 2 is more clear. It 
avoids repeating the i, which makes it more immediately clear that the 
operation only involves variable i and nothing else.
> +=   is more a 'C' thing.
It's perfectly idiomatic Python too. Using += is nothing like falling 
back to C-style constructs.

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