Re: Python

On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 at 03:19, Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2025-12-21 23:59:48 +1100, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 at 23:31, Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > There is the concept of "pythonic" Code (just like there is a concept of
> > > idiomatic code in (almost) any language), but if you ask 100 randomly
> > > chosen Python programmers whether the use of += is pythonic, I doubt
> > > that more than a handful would say no.
> > >
> >
> > I would expect the opposite. It's in the language for a reason. Is it
> > somehow more Pythonic to repeat yourself?
>
> I think we agree, but my double negative may have been confusing.
>
> My expectation is:
>
> at most 5% say "no, using += is not pythonic"
> at least 95% say "yes, using += is pythonic"
>

Yeah. I'm not going to try to predict specific percentages, but I
believe a significant majority of Python programmers would say that
yes, += IS Pythonic.

ChrisA