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

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 06:53:45 CET 2007

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.

FWIW, I've always thought of the operator module as a place to look when I need to pass some bit of syntax (eg., attribute lookup, "in", addition) to a higher-order function. bool() and abs() aren't syntax, so I would never look in operator.

Collin Winter

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