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Author gvanrossum
Recipients benjamin.peterson, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2018-08-28.17:59:34
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> I'm surprised that they are supported in augmented assignments: `a += 1, 2, 3`.

I guess at the time it was felt that it was better to support it everywhere it *could* be supported -- and if a is a list it even makes some amount of sense. In any case it's too late to change. :-)
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