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Fri Feb 8 17:05:54 CET 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-February/123894.html

On 08/02/2013 15:42, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2013/2/8 Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just had a bit of an embarrassing incident in some code where I did:
>>
>> sometotal =+ somevalue
>
> That's just a strange way of expressing
>
> sometotal = +somevalue

Indeed, but why should this be possible? When could it do something 
useful? :-)

Chris

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[Python-Dev] why do we allow this syntax?