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[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'

[Python-Dev] replacing 'global' [Python-Dev] replacing 'global'Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Oct 26 22:28:08 EST 2003
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com>:

> > Ideally, augmented assignments would also become "rebinding". However,
> > this may have compatibility problems.
> 
> Unfortunately yes.  It might have been better to define them that way in
> the first place, but changing them now is dubious.

I'm not so sure. You need an existing binding before an
augmented assignment will work, so I don't think there can
be any correct existing usages that would be broken by this.

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