On 10/8/2014 6:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
According to the documentation, operator.__add__ is the "official" function,
and operator.add is just there for convenience.
You are paraphrasing "The function names are those used for special
class methods; variants without leading and trailing __ are also
provided for convenience." But then there is the following:
10.3.1. Mapping Operators to Functions
This table shows how abstract operations correspond to operator symbols
in the Python syntax and the functions in the operator module.
Operation Syntax Function
Addition a + b add(a, b)
etc, using the 'convenient' names. I would like to deprecate and
eventually remove the dunder names. To me, the duplication is not
'convenient'.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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