boolian logic

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:15:52 -0300, marc wyburn  
<marc.wyburn at googlemail.com> escribió:

> HI all, I'm a bit stuck with how to work out boolian logic.
>
> I'd like to say if A is not equal to B, C or D:
>    do something.
>
> I've tried
>
> if not var == A or B or C:
> and various permutations but can't seem to get my head around it.  I'm
> pretty sure I need to know what is calulated first i.e the not or the
> 'OR/AND's

if A not in (B, C, D):
   ...

"or" has less priority than not, and all boolean operators have less  
priority than comparisons. So your expression above reads as:

if (not (var==A)) or B or C

and the three or'ed expressions are evaluated from left to right  
(short-circuit: stop as soon as any true value is found).

Evaluation order is defined in the Reference Manual, see  
<http://docs.python.org/ref/expressions.html> in particular, operator  
precedence is summarized in <http://docs.python.org/ref/summary.html>

-- 
Gabriel Genellina