A small quiz question

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:38 pm, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> 
>>   I wrote my first Python quiz question!
>>
>>   It goes like this:
>>
>>   Can you predict (without trying it out) what the Python
>>   console will output after the following three lines have
>>   been entered?
>>
>> def f(i): print(i); return i;
>>
>> f(4)**f(1)**f(2)
> 
> Does Python actually specify what the output will be?  It's going to end
> with 4 (the result from the REPL) and 4, 1 and 2 will appear on the
> lines before, but is the order they appear specified?


https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#evaluation-order



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Steve
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