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5.13 Evaluation order

Python evaluates expressions from left to right. Notice that while evaluating an assignment, the right-hand side is evaluated before the left-hand side.

In the following lines, expressions will be evaluated in the arithmetic order of their suffixes:

    expr1, expr2, expr3, expr4
    (expr1, expr2, expr3, expr4)
    {expr1: expr2, expr3: expr4}
    expr1 + expr2 * (expr3 - expr4)
    func(expr1, expr2, *expr3, **expr4)
    expr3, expr4 = expr1, expr2