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What is the Meaning of += in Python?

DDSRY on August 31, 2020

Meaning of += in Python Programming language? Do you know how in English we can rewrite "it is" to be "it's"? Or we can rewrite "you are" to "yo...
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Jason C. McDonald • • Edited

Officially, this is known as a "compound operator", and there's one for each of the five basic math operators in Python:

x = 5

x += 2  # 7
x -= 1  # 6
x *= 5  # 30
x /= 2  # 15
x %= 2  # 1

P.S. You'll want to drop the #help tag from your post, as that's only for questions. #beginners might be a good fit, though.