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Re: operator module functions

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>>>>> operator.add is operator.__add__
>>
>> True
>
>
> That doesn't always seem to have been the case, however.
> In Python 2.7 and 3.3, I get
>
>>>> operator.add is operator.__add__
> False

Huh. So it is.

rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python3
Python 3.5.0a0 (default:301b9a58021c, Oct  2 2014, 09:20:24)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import operator
>>> operator.add, operator.__add__
(<built-in function add>, <built-in function add>)
>>>
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import operator
>>> operator.add, operator.__add__
(<built-in function add>, <built-in function __add__>)
>>>

Presumably they have the same code behind them, just different
function names. But anyway, the fact that it doesn't throw back an
AttributeError proves that both functions do at least exist.

Learn something new every day!

ChrisA

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  Re: operator module functions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-08 02:28 -0400
  Re: operator module functions marco.nawijn@colosso.nl - 2014-10-08 01:46 -0700
    Re: operator module functions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 20:32 +1100
      Re: operator module functions Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-10-09 10:37 +1300
        Re: operator module functions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-09 09:30 +1100
        Re: operator module functions Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-10-08 15:40 -0700
    Re: operator module functions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-08 21:57 +1100
      Re: operator module functions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-08 15:09 -0400
      Re: operator module functions Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-10-08 12:38 -0700
      Re: operator module functions random832@fastmail.us - 2014-10-08 15:49 -0400
      Re: operator module functions Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 23:05 +0200
      Re: operator module functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 15:23 -0600
      Re: operator module functions Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-10-08 14:49 -0700
      Re: operator module functions Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-10-08 14:21 -0700
      Re: operator module functions Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-10-09 08:57 +1100
      Re: operator module functions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-08 18:46 -0400
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