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| 60 | Augmented assignment is the combination, in a single statement, of a binary |
| 61 | operation and an assignment statement: |
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| 92 | An augmented assignment evaluates the target (which, unlike normal |
| 93 | assignment statements, cannot be an unpacking) and the expression |
| 94 | list, performs the binary operation specific to the type of assignment |
| 95 | on the two operands, and assigns the result to the original |
| 96 | target. The target is only evaluated once. |
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| 99 | An augmented assignment expression like <code>x += 1</code> can be rewritten as |
| 100 | <code>x = x + 1</code> to achieve a similar, but not exactly equal effect. In the |
| 101 | augmented version, <code>x</code> is only evaluated once. Also, when possible, the |
| 102 | actual operation is performed <em>in-place</em>, meaning that rather than |
| 103 | creating a new object and assigning that to the target, the old object is |
| 104 | modified instead. |
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| 107 | With the exception of assigning to tuples and multiple targets in a single |
| 108 | statement, the assignment done by augmented assignment statements is handled |
| 109 | the same way as normal assignments. Similarly, with the exception of the |
| 110 | possible <em>in-place</em> behavior, the binary operation performed by |
| 111 | augmented assignment is the same as the normal binary operations. |
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| 114 | For targets which are attribute references, the initial value is |
| 115 | retrieved with a <tt class="method">getattr()</tt> and the result is assigned with a |
| 116 | <tt class="method">setattr()</tt>. Notice that the two methods do not necessarily |
| 117 | refer to the same variable. When <tt class="method">getattr()</tt> refers to a class |
| 118 | variable, <tt class="method">setattr()</tt> still writes to an instance variable. |
| 119 | For example: |
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| 123 | class A: |
| 124 | x = 3 # class variable |
| 125 | a = A() |
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