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What this Python operator-precedence interview question tests

This is a medium-difficulty Python question that probes your understanding of operator precedence and associativity. It's the kind of question quant firms use to filter for candidates who read code carefully and understand how Python evaluates expressions—not just whether they can write them.

Solving it requires you to trace through the expression mentally, accounting for the order in which Python applies different operators and how they associate when chained. The question rewards precision: a single operator misread or a misunderstanding of precedence rules will yield the wrong result.

• Operator precedence in Python
• Left-to-right and right-to-left associativity
• Arithmetic and bitwise operator interactions