Python integer incrementing with ++ [duplicate]

Question

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?

Answer 1

Python does not support ++ like other languages because once you do ++/-- it becomes a statement, not an operator. In Python, all the namespace modification is in a statement. That's one of the design decisions. And also because integers are immutable, the only way to 'change' a variable is by re-assigning it.

To get the value of ++/-- you can work with the following way:-

number += 1 and number -= 1

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