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Subject: Re: 0 + not 0
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 16:46:29 -0400
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 07:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> wrote:
> > It can occur in an arithmetic expression, and 'not' has a higher precedence
> > than '+'
> > (https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence)
> >
> 
> I think you're misreading the table; 'not' has *lower* precedence than
> '+'.

Precedence shouldn't actually matter when resolving a unary prefix
operator on the right of a binary operator. I don't understand how this
could possibly be interpreted in a different valid way rather than being
spuriously rejected as a syntax error.