gh-65557: Clarify 'only evaluated once' in augmented assignment docs#153264
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The reference manual currently says that the target of an augmented
assignment "is only evaluated once". As discussed in the issue, this is
imprecise: for a target like
y[k], the subexpressionsyandkare evaluated only once, but the subscription itself may be performed
twice — once to fetch the old value and once to store the result.
This can be observed directly:
This PR rewords both sentences to say that the subexpressions of the
target are only evaluated once, and adds the
y[k]example, followingthe wording suggested by @terryjreedy in the issue.
Fixes gh-65557