List Order of Initialization

[Terry Reedy]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> SamFeltus schrieb:
>> When a list initializes, will it always evaluate in order starting at
>> element 0 and finishing with the last element?
>>
>> def f1(x):
>>     return x + 2
>>
>> def f2(x):
>>     return x * 2
>>
>> def f3(x):
>>     return x * 3
>>
>> the_list = [f1(7), f2(8), f3(4)]
> 
> Yes.

 From the fine manual:

Python evaluates expressions from left to right. Notice that while 
evaluating an assignment, the right-hand side is evaluated before the 
left-hand side.

In the following lines, expressions will be evaluated in the arithmetic 
order of their suffixes:

expr1, expr2, expr3, expr4
(expr1, expr2, expr3, expr4)
{expr1: expr2, expr3: expr4}
expr1 + expr2 * (expr3 - expr4)
expr1(expr2, expr3, *expr4, **expr5)
expr3, expr4 = expr1, expr2