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Anyone has any idea on why is there no post/pre increment operators in
python ?
Maybe because Python doesn't aim at being a cryptic portable assembly
language? That's my guess ;-)
Although the statement:
++j
works but does nothing
That depends on the type of j, and how it implements the __pos__()
method. The builtin numeric types (integers, floats, complex)
implement __pos__ to return the base-class part of `self`. That's not
the same as doing nothing. There is no "++" operator in Python, BTW
-- that's two applications of the unary-plus operator.
class MyFloat(float):
.... pass x = MyFloat(3.5)
x
3.5 type(x)
<class '__main__.MyFloat'> type(+x) # "downcasts" to base `float` type
<type 'float'> type(x.__pos__()) # same thing, but wordier
<type 'float'>
If you want, you can implement __pos__ in your class so that
+a_riteshtijoriwala_object
posts messages to comp.lang.c asking why C is so inflexible ;-).
