[Python-Dev] Missing operator.call (original) (raw)

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org
Wed Feb 4 14:28:21 CET 2009

Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

Is there a reason why the operator module doesn't have an operator.call function?

Python 2.6 adds operator.methodcaller. So you could use operator.methodcaller('call'), but that's not really any better than lambda x: x().

A patch to add operator.caller(*args, **kwargs) may be a good idea. Your example would then be:

map(operator.caller(), lst)

That reads ok to me. I think this reads better though:

[callable() for callable in lst]

-Andrew.

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