[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

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[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 9210b5826fab5248ac28a15c1b8b39ae949d0ef8 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-16438: Doc: confusing text regarding numeric precedence corrected (GH-10521) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9210b5826fab5248ac28a15c1b8b39ae949d0ef8

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 80db4b4be54ccdb5b67821506b6db2b27bd7c28a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-16438: Doc: confusing text regarding numeric precedence corrected (GH-10521) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/80db4b4be54ccdb5b67821506b6db2b27bd7c28a

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

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[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15546 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15905 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Julien Palard added the comment: New changeset 4576b5431bd597df7581fe3c852b315e47e4b230 by Julien Palard (Anjali) in branch 'master': bpo-16438: Doc: confusing text regarding numeric precedence corrected (GH-10521)

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: I'm actually thinking perhaps the "see :ref:`operator-summary`" clause should be separate and under Notes below the table, as opposed to current PR: ``` All numeric types (except complex) support the following operations (for priorities of the operations,

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

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[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Elliot Edmunds added the comment: I agree that linking to the precedence table is probably the best solution. A different option would be to add an extra column listing the "priority" and rank the priorities of the different operations. -- nosy: +Elliot Edmunds

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

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ron added the comment: Any progress on this? -- nosy: +ronron ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I find the numeric operator predecence simply wrong, not confusing, so +1 from me for applying the attached patch from ktt3ja. It's as simple as possible but no simpler :) -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I'm still unable to figure out how to do it You could look at Doc/library/unittest.rst, there are some tables that span multiple lines. If you want a newline in the output too I think you have to add a blank line in the cell. --

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Kiet Tran added the comment: That document actually doesn't have any table that spans multiple lines. Here's the html page: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html Actually, I already know how to make a table span multiple lines from this stackoverflow page:

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Kiet Tran added the comment: Good idea. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28075/16438.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16438 ___

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Kiet Tran added the comment: I was trying to fix this, but I ran into a couple questions. 1) Once I put, say, x + y and x - y into the same table cell, what would a good format be? My preferred format is to have them on separate lines in the cell, but after a lot of googling on the syntax of

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Yongzhi Pan added the comment: One possible solution: We do not list priorities of the operations, instead link to the precedence table in the language reference. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16438

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

New submission from Yongzhi Pan: http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types-int-float-complex All numeric types (except complex) support the following operations, sorted by ascending priority. It list '-' after '+', '/' after '*'. That is to mean '-' has higher precedence

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: Precedence ordered per row. Same row, same precedence. I don't see any problem. It is natural math precedence. Closed as invalid. -- nosy: +jcea resolution: - invalid ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

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[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Yongzhi Pan added the comment: I mean the text at the first link need fix. '+' and '-' are not on the same row. And the doc says: sorted by ascending priority, that means they have ascending priority. The table in the reference is just right. --

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: You are right, Yongzhi Pan. Reopening. Not sure how to solve it. Delegating to docs@python. -- resolution: invalid - status: closed - open ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

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[issue16438] Numeric operator predecence confusing

Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- keywords: +easy nosy: +ezio.melotti stage: - needs patch type: - enhancement ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16438 ___