Brian J Mingus wrote:
I think you answered your own question. 3**2 comes first in the order of operations, followed by the negation.
No, that's not the problem, I'm ok with the operator precedence of - vs ** My problem is why I don't get the same result if I use the literal -3 or a variable that contains -3 (x in my example). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list