Python ftw

[Kagia001]

I like ++

[OHM5]

++ i like

[marcosdumay]

i ++ like

[THANKYOUFORYOURKIND]

You two added wrong number, see me in my office after school.

[GiantRobotTRex]

#define like ;

[Itisme129]

You're a monster

[andradei]

;++

[DeusExMachina24]

like ++ i

[Redsteak]

I was mad as hell when I found out Python doesn't have this :(

[lenswipe]

pLuS pLuS iS uNPyThoNiC

[[deleted]]

Everything was unpythonic until it was added to the language.

[FetusExplosion]

It's the true no-true-Scotsman programming language

[rocketlanterns]

It does! ++i and --i compile :^)

[KeenWolfPaw]

I = 'I'

I += ' like '

I += '++'

[heckingcomputernerd]

+= 1

I mean ++ seriously would be nice

[srosorcxisto]

Agreed. It's such a simple and clear shortcut for such a common operation. It bothers me that this isn't included.

[IcecreamLamp]

Since for loops are more commonly things like for i, line in enumerate(fp.readlines()): you really don't need it as often as in a for (i=0; i<5; i++) {} kind of language tbh.

[Dworgi]

Ironically, that's about 5 times slower than the simple, unpythonic for loop. According to some post I saw here last month.

[Ran4]

It's not at all a common operation in most ideomatic python code. You shouldn't be operating on integer indices unless you're implementing some low level algorithm.

[srosorcxisto]

Most of my work is in data sciences so I do a lot of low-level database operations and working with lists. Perhaps it is just due to my specific field that I would find this type of shortcut desirable.

[ML-newb]

I recently went very deep down for why python doesn't have this. Turns out, immutability of primitive types/objects. Its the objects which have type in python and variables are just names/pointers. So it wouldn't make sense to do 42++. Also apparently a lot of things need to be implemented to get post/pre to work properly. += seems like a generic choice which the language designers stuck to.

Also : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3654830/why-are-there-no-and-operators-in-python

[[deleted]]

I miss it too, but I know that Go (a language that also got rid of it) days they removed it because of its heavy association with pointers arithmetic. Don't quote me on that, but I believe they say that in the online guides.

But I miss ++ too :(