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. >
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 _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
