diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 4f6c0c6..618664b 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ statements, cannot be an unpacking) and the expression list, performs the binary operation specific to the type of assignment on the two operands, and assigns the result to the original target. The target is only evaluated once. -An augmented assignment expression like ``x += 1`` can be rewritten as ``x = x + +An augmented assignment statement like ``x += 1`` can be rewritten as ``x = x + 1`` to achieve a similar, but not exactly equal effect. In the augmented version, ``x`` is only evaluated once. Also, when possible, the actual operation is performed *in-place*, meaning that rather than creating a new object and |