What is the associativity of comparison operators in Python? It is straightforward for three comparisons, but for more than that, I'm not sure how it does it. They don't seem to be right- or left-associative.
For example:
>>> 7410 >= 8690 <= -4538 < 9319 > -7092
False
>>> (((7410 >= 8690) <= -4538) < 9319) > -7092
True
So, not left-associative.
>>> 81037572 > -2025 < -4722 < 6493
False
>>> (81037572 > (-2025 < (-4722 < 6493)))
True
So it's not right-associative either.
I have seen some places that they are 'chained', but how does that work with four or more comparisons?
解决方案
Chained comparisons are expanded with and, so:
a <= b <= c
becomes:
a <= b and b <= c
(b is only evaluated once, though). This is explained in the language reference on comparisons.
Note that lazy evaluation means that if a > b, the result is False and b is never compared to c.
Your versions with parentheses are completely different; a <= (b <= c) will evaluate b <= c then compare a to the result of that, and isn't involved at all, so it's not meaningful to compare the results to determine associativity.