[Python-Dev] Fwd: Re: [Python-3000] Removing functions from the operator module (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Mar 8 02:20:50 CET 2007

They do, by emphasizing the relationship with special methods.

On 3/7/07, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

[Collin Winter] >> I don't suppose you've changed your mind about removing operator.truth >> and operator.abs in the seven months since this discussion?

[GvR] >No, though I think that operator.truth should be renamed to operator.bool. > >I like the idea that for each built-in op there's a callable in operator. It makes sense to me that built-in ops like + have a corresponding operator function like operator.add(), but I don't follow how this logic applies to abs() and bool(). ISTM, operator.bool and operator.abs would not add any value beyond what is already provided by builtin.bool and builtin.abs.

Raymond

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