Can you clarify what you mean by this?

The precedence of operators in Python is determined by the language.
See https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence.
Unary - has a higher precedence than binary + (or binary -).

In SymPy, -x is represented as (-1)*x, but this is done after Python
parses the expression and converts them into SymPy objects.

In Python, x - y is different from x + -y. In the former, - is a
binary operator and the latter it is a unary operator. They both use
the same symbol because it's unambiguous which is which. SymPy
represents these both as x + (-1)*y because this makes things simpler,
but this is only because it converts them both to that canonical form.

Aaron Meurer

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 2:13 PM Paul Royik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is there any reason why precedence of -x equals precedence of Add?
> -x is (-1)*x
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