Python’s Fake Increment and Decrement Operators
Content Source: Python Web Development In Python, you can increase the value of a variable by 1 or reduce it by 1 using the augmented assignment operators. The code spam += 1 and spam -= 1 increments and decrements the numeric values in spam by 1, respectively. Other languages such as C++ and Java have the ++ and -- operators for incrementing and decrementing variables. (The name of C++ itself reflects this; the name is a tongue-in-cheek joke that indicates it’s an enhanced form of the C language.) Code in C++ and Java could have ++spam or spam++. Python wisely doesn’t include these operators; they are notoriously susceptible to subtle bugs. Reading more