On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 11:57 pm, Random832 wrote: > Okay, can we settle on, as a principle, "the basic arithmetic operators > (not to include **) are the only ones whose precedence can be presumed > to be obvious to all readers,
Agreed. > and other expressions may/should have > parentheses to make it more clear, even when not strictly necessary to > the meaning of the expression"? Sure, why not? So long as it is a "should" and not a "must". > Sure, it's obvious to _me_ that << and >> have higher precedence than & > and |, and that "and" has a higher precedence than "or", Do they? https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence Blimey, you're right. I always thought `and` and `or` had the same precedence. And now that I know better, I have no doubt that I will forget it again. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
