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Re: 0 + not 0

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Date 2015-07-11 20:38 +1000
Subject Re: 0 + not 0
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.416.1436611135.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:26 PM, candide <c.candide@laposte.net> wrote:
>>>> 0 + not 0
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     0 + not 0
>           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>>
>
>
> What is syntactically wrong with 0 + not 0?

I'm actually not sure why this can't be handled. Possibly it's a
limitation of the parser. Certainly 0 + (not 0) works just fine. This
suggests that the exponentiation operator may have been special-cased
to cope with this:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#id21

So maybe there's just no corresponding special case for this - which,
I have to say, is not exactly a common construct.

ChrisA

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0 + not 0 candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-07-11 03:26 -0700
  Re: 0 + not 0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 20:38 +1000
  Re: 0 + not 0 Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-07-11 12:38 +0200
    Re: 0 + not 0 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2015-07-11 13:12 +0200
      Re: 0 + not 0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 21:20 +1000
        Re: 0 + not 0 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2015-07-11 13:30 +0200
          Re: 0 + not 0 candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-07-11 04:54 -0700
            Re: 0 + not 0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 22:05 +1000
              Re: 0 + not 0 candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-07-11 06:22 -0700
        Re: 0 + not 0 candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-07-11 04:48 -0700
      Re: 0 + not 0 random832@fastmail.us - 2015-07-11 16:46 -0400
  Re: 0 + not 0 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 16:38 +0300
    Re: 0 + not 0 candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-07-11 08:07 -0700
    Re: 0 + not 0 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-11 17:20 +0100
    Re: 0 + not 0 Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 10:56 -0600
      Re: 0 + not 0 Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-12 18:12 +1200
    Re: 0 + not 0 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-11 21:05 +0100

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