which python trick or hack you know that you would want to share? - eviltoast
  • computergeek125@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I forget where I originally found this and Google on my phone was unhelpful.

    My favorite annoying trick is x -=- 1. It looks like it shouldn’t work because that’s not precisely a valid operator, but it functions as an increment equivalent to x += 1

    It works because -= still functions are “subtract and assign”, but the second minus applies to the 1 making it -1.