From b75704317a888ac89fbebce37c461094c5d920f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nate stemen <nate@unitary.fund>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 07:52:01 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix precedence

---
 mitiq/shadows/shadows_utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mitiq/shadows/shadows_utils.py b/mitiq/shadows/shadows_utils.py
index e278f80015..7a81b3ec18 100644
--- a/mitiq/shadows/shadows_utils.py
+++ b/mitiq/shadows/shadows_utils.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def valid_bitstrings(
     bitstrings = {
         bin(i)[2:].zfill(num_qubits)
         for i in range(2**num_qubits)
-        if bin(i).count("1") <= max_hamming_weight or num_qubits
+        if bin(i).count("1") <= (max_hamming_weight or num_qubits)
     }
     return bitstrings