They do, by emphasizing the relationship with special methods. On 3/7/07, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >
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