Path: ...!news.nobody.at!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Two aces up Python's sleeve Date: 7 Nov 2024 11:03:29 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 7 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <050c2ce9efd8442fb902ecc926afb1ee42fe6c34.camel@tilde.green> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de EGoKEIFSX/q/TPFXGz1Pug7Ffsczg/SmC1XStPxSJFoTdY Cancel-Lock: sha1:bhl8Ha7zJ4s79VdT4NuhPV6IuqI= sha256:XAKfVR+f8+qAm/jmU9a68JclLPNOviAPoS5fClceCE0= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1695 Annada Behera wrote or quoted: >5 is a object that x and y points to. ++x or x++ will redefine 5 to This doesn't add up for me. Using the same "logic," you might as well say "x = x + 1" is off limits.