Summary

👀 Some source code analysis tools can help to find opportunities for improving software components.
💭 I propose to increase the usage of augmented assignment statements accordingly.

Proposed fix

Would you like to integrate anything from a transformation result which can be generated by a command like the following?
(:point_right: Please check also for questionable change suggestions because of an evolving search pattern.)

[Markus_Elfring@fedora lokal]$ perl -p -i.orig -0777 -e 's/^(?<indentation>\s+)(?<target>\S+)\s*=\s*\k<target>[ \t]*(?<operator>[+\-%&|^@]|\*\*?|\/\/?|<<|>>)/$+{indentation}$+{target} $+{operator}=/gm' $(find ~/Projekte/matplotlib/lokal -name '*.py')