[Python-Dev] ',' precedence in documentation] (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Sep 15 16:39:52 CEST 2008

Nick Coghlan wrote:

While it may not make sense to list it in the table itself, having a note on that page that comma is NOT an operator (unlike C), and hence only permitted between expressions as part of another statement or expressions that permits it may not be a bad idea.

better include "=" and augmented assignments as well.

on the other hand, we're talking about a single instance of a "someone" here -- it's not like there's any sign that the comma issue is something that lots of someones are confused about.

(...and given that the precedence table has been broken for over a decade (see http://bugs.python.org/issue3558) due to a bug in the Latex-to-HTML renderer, one might wonder if anyone gets that far into the language reference at all...)

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