a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Christopher A. Craig]

Kendear <kendear at nospam.com> writes:

> if Python supports   1 < a < 10
> then maybe it is also just syntactic sugar.
> Other language might take it as  (1 < a) < 10
> which is just the boolean 0 or 1 less than 10
> which is always true.
> 
>  >>> a = -1
>  >>> 1 < a < 10
> 0
>  >>> (1 < a) < 10
> 1
> 
> so in Python, we can't just add parenthesis
> to multiple =  and can't add parenthesis
> arbitrarily to multiple  <, >, ==, etc.

Sure you can.  It just totally changes the meaning.  

1 < a < 10 is the same as 1<a and a<10
(1<a) < 10 is not

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Christopher A. Craig <com-nospam at ccraig.org>
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