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 "you're?
That's called contraction, and this is kind of like a
contraction for the two operations = and +.That means x = x+y is the same as x += y.
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Officially, this is known as a "compound operator", and there's one for each of the five basic math operators in Python:
P.S. You'll want to drop the
#helptag from your post, as that's only for questions.#beginnersmight be a good fit, though.