[Python-Dev] Fwd: Re: [Python-3000] Removing functions from the operator module

[Guido van Rossum]

They do, by emphasizing the relationship with special methods.

On 3/7/07, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> 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 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
> Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org
>


-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)