Python integer incrementing with

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I ve always laughed to myself when I ve looked back at my VB6 days and thought   What modern language doesn t allow incrementing with double plus signs     number     To my surprise  I can t find anything about this in the Python docs  Must I really subject myself to number   number   1  Don t people use the    -- notation

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Python doesn t support     but you can do   number    1

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Simply put  the    and -- operators don t exist in Python because they wouldn t be operators  they would have to be statements  All namespace modification in Python is a statement  for simplicity and consistency  That s one of the design decisions  And because integers are immutable  the only way to  change  a variable is by reassigning it   Fortunately we have wonderful tools for the use-cases of    and -- in other languages  like enumerate   and itertools count

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Take a look at Behaviour of increment and decrement operators in Python for an explanation of why this doesn t work    Python doesn t really have    and --  and I personally never felt it was such a loss    I prefer functions with clear names to operators with non-always clear semantics  hence the classic interview question about   x vs  x   and the difficulties of overloading it   I ve also never been a huge fan of what post-incrementation does for readability    You could always define some wrapper class  like accumulator  with clear increment semantics  and then do something like x increment   or x incrementAndReturnPrev

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You can do   number    1

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The main reason    comes in handy in C-like languages is for keeping track of indices  In Python  you deal with data in an abstract way and seldom increment through indices and such  The closest-in-spirit thing to    is the next method of iterators

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Here there is an explanation  http   bytes com topic python answers 444733-why-there-no-post-pre-increment-operator-python  However the absence of this operator is in the python philosophy increases consistency and avoids implicitness   In addition  this kind of increments are not widely used in python code because python have a strong implementation of the iterator pattern plus the function enumerate

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Yes  The    operator is not available in Python  Guido doesn t like these operators

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