Operator precedences

[Erik Max Francis]

Jesper Hansen wrote:

> These both evaluate to true, so the order does not seem to be fixed;
> (3 < 2 < 1)  ==  (3 < (2 < 1))
> (1 < 2 < 3)  ==  ((1 < 2 ) < 3)
> 
> What am I missing?

Probably that Python's relational operators can be chained.  If you
write

	a ? b ? c

where ? is one of the relational operators, this has the same meaning as

	a ? b and b ? c

In short, neither of your examples is correct.  (And no, 3 < 2 < 1 does
not evaluate to True.)

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