Precedence of comparison and logical operators

Question

There is that one example in Introduction to Python, where it states that "You can put parentheses around the operations that should be done first. It makes the code easier to read."

a = (3 > 2) or False

Would it be correct, and is it possible to get into a situation, where evaluating a logical operation needs to precede the comparison operation, possibly in the same line? Are parentheses necessary in that case?

Answer 1

Comparison operators have higher precedence than Boolean operators so comparisons would be evaluated first. You may add parentheses to modify the evaluation.

2 == (3 and False) is a valid expression. It would first do (3 and False), which reduces to (False). Then it would compare 2 == False, which is False.

In Booleans, any non-zero value is considered True. Zero is considered False. In the expression above, 3 is seen as True.

And when using a Boolean in a mathematical expression, True gets promoted to integer 1, and False gets promoted to integer 0.

print(5 + True) #outputs 6.

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For a chart of operator precedence, see https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence

Answer 2

Python would interpret numbers other than 0 as True (0 is False).
so (3 and False) would become (True and False) which evaluates to False. Then it is 2 == False. False evaluates to 0 (True to 1), so that is interpreted as 2 == 0 which is False.

so
2 == (3 and False)
is False

Answer 3

Yes. Examine this logical expression without parentheses and with them:

print(False and False or True) #True
print(False and (False or True)) #False

Answer 4

Thanks, Brian and Bob_Li , that helped a lot.

Answer 5

You i know that, i don't know how it transfers into domain of logical operations.

Answer 6

That would mean that comparison operators need to be solved first in any case?

2 == 3 and False

2 == (3 and False) would not be correct and can't happen in a program?