Is Python’s order of evaluation of function arguments and operands deterministic (+ where is it documented)?

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Yes, left to right evaluation order is guaranteed, with the exception of assignments. That’s documented here (py2, py3):

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)
expr1(expr2, expr3, *expr4, **expr5)
expr3, expr4 = expr1, expr2

If the language were not making some choice about this, the evaluation of one argument could mutate another argument and result in unspecified behaviour, so all implementations of Python must follow this spec.

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