On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Interestingly, however, Python hasn't extended that principle to the > expression syntax. You could have: > > >>> 1 + 2*3 > 7 > >>> 1+2 * 3 > 9
In a later post, you referenced a Wikipedia page on order of operations <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations>, in which it states: *The order of operations used throughout mathematics, science, technology and many computer programming languages is expressed here...* Python's syntax is indentation-based because Guido and the people he worked with on the ABC language (I think) at CWI observed that it was easier for new programmers to understand the program's logic if it was forced to behave the way it looks ("Python, programming the way Guido indented"). So-called high-level programming languages having been available for only about 30-40 years at that point, there was still valuable research to be done on the "best" way to structure your code, especially for people new to programming. OTOH, changing the way order of operations is specified from the way settled on in mathematics over the past few hundred years (and which every algebra student learns) hardly makes sense. In this particular case, the OP simply made a mistake, one, which when explained, probably made perfect sense to him. Like many other computer languages, Python has overloaded arithmetic operators a bit, and even though '%' isn't the most common of the basic arithmetic operators, it still has the same precedence it would have if it occurred in a purely arithmetic expression: 1 + 372 % 19 Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
