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Unary arithmetic operations

       

All unary arithmetic (and bit-wise) operations have the same priority:

u_expr:         primary | "-" u_expr | "+" u_expr | "~" u_expr

The unary "-" (minus) operator yields the negation of its numeric argument.    

The unary "+" (plus) operator yields its numeric argument unchanged.  

The unary "~" (invert) operator yields the bit-wise inversion of its plain or long integer argument. The bit-wise inversion of x is defined as -(x+1).  

In all three cases, if the argument does not have the proper type, a TypeError exception is raised.   



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