Maybe a better question would be to ask why do these operators exist in C. K&R calls increment and decrement operators 'unusual' (Section 2.8page 46). The Introduction calls them 'more concise and often more efficient'. I suspect that the fact that these operations always come up in pointer manipulation also has played a part in their introduction. In Python it has been probably decided that it made no sense to try to optimise increments (in fact I just did a test in C, and it seems that the gcc-generated assembly uses addl instead of incl in both cases) and there is no pointer arithmetic; so it would have been just One More Way to Do It and we know Python loathes that.

其他答案描述了为什么迭代器不需要它，但有时它在赋值以inline增加变量时很有用，你可以使用元组和多次赋值达到相同的效果:

B = ++a变成:

a,b = (a+1,)*2

b = a++变成:

a,b = a+1, a

Python 3.8引入了赋值:=操作符，允许我们用

foo(a:=a+1)

Foo (a++)仍然是难以捉摸的。

当然，我们可以说“Guido只是决定那样做”，但我认为问题实际上是关于这个决定的原因。我认为有以下几个原因:

它将语句和表达式混合在一起，这不是好的实践。参见http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html 它通常鼓励人们编写可读性较差的代码 语言实现中的额外复杂性，如前所述，这在Python中是不必要的

这并不是因为它没有意义;将“x++”定义为“x+ = 1，求值到x的前一个绑定”非常有意义。

如果你想知道最初的原因，你必须在旧的Python邮件列表中寻找，或者询问当时在那里的人(例如。Guido)，但事后很容易就能证明:

简单的递增和递减不需要像其他语言那样多。你不会写这样的for(int i = 0;I < 10;i)在Python中经常使用;相反，你可以把I放在(0,10)范围内。

由于不经常需要它，所以没有理由给它自己的特殊语法;当您确实需要增加时，+=通常就可以了。

It's not a decision of whether it makes sense, or whether it can be done--it does, and it can. It's a question of whether the benefit is worth adding to the core syntax of the language. Remember, this is four operators--postinc, postdec, preinc, predec, and each of these would need to have its own class overloads; they all need to be specified, and tested; it would add opcodes to the language (implying a larger, and therefore slower, VM engine); every class that supports a logical increment would need to implement them (on top of += and -=).

这些都是+=和-=的冗余，所以会变成净损失。

我相信这源于Python的信条“显式优于隐式”。

它就是这样设计的。自增和自减运算符只是x = x + 1的快捷方式。Python通常采用一种设计策略，减少执行操作的可选方法的数量。增强赋值是Python中最接近自增/自减操作符的东西，它们直到Python 2.0才被添加。