[Numpy-discussion] logical_and operator, &&, is missing? (original) (raw)

Sasha ndarray at mac.com
Sun Jun 25 16:22:02 EDT 2006


On 6/24/06, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:

Out of curiosity, is there a simple explanation as to why "and" cannot be overridden but operators like "&" can? Is it a fundamental distinction between operators and keywords?

There is no fundamental reason. In fact overloadable boolean operators were proposed for python: <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0335>



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