Python logical operator precedence

Question

Which operator takes precedence in 4 > 5 or 3 < 4 and 9 > 8? Would this be evaluated to true or false?

I know that the statement 3 > 4 or (2 < 3 and 9 > 10) should obviously evaluate to false but I am not quite sure how python would read 4 > 5 or 3 < 4 and 9 > 8

Did you find the [documentation](https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#operator-precedence) yet? — Martijn Pieters, Feb 16 '16 at 17:33
The first one is `True` because `3 < 4 and 9 > 8` is `True`. — pp_, Feb 16 '16 at 17:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 17:34

Comparisons are executed before and, which in turn comes before or. You can look up the precedence of each operator in the expressions documentation.

So your expression is parsed as:

(4 > 5) or ((3 < 4) and (9 > 8))

Which comes down to:

False or (True and True)

which is True.

Python logical operator precedence

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