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  Re: Rule of order for dot operators? Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu> - 2015-05-16 12:32 -0700

#90752 — Re: Rule of order for dot operators?

On 05/16/2015 12:20 PM, C.D. Reimer wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Noobie question regarding a single line of code that transforms a URL 
> slug ("this-is-a-slug") into a title ("This Is A Slug").
>
> title = slug.replace('-',' ').title()
>
> This line also works if I switched the dot operators around.
>
> title = slug.title().replace('-',' ')
>
> I'm reading the first example as character replacement first and title 
> capitalization second, and the second example as title capitalization 
> first and character replacement second.
>
> Does python perform the dot operators from left to right or according 
> to a rule of order (i.e., multiplication/division before add/subtract)?

Yes, that's correct.

Gary Herron



>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris Reimer


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Dr. Gary Herron
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DigiPen Institute of Technology
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