marco.naw...@colosso.nl wrote: > For me it makes sense. operator.add should be used in a "global" context > (I don't know how to express it otherwise). So you provide it with the > two values that you want to add. The .__add__ variants are bound to a > particular instance and you provide it with a single value that you want > to add.
That's not correct. You're misunderstanding me, I'm not talking about the special "dunder" methods on classes, e.g. (2).__add__(3) -> 5. I'm talking about *functions* in the operator module: py> import operator py> operator.add(2, 3) 5 py> operator.__add__(2, 3) 5 According to the documentation, operator.__add__ is the "official" function, and operator.add is just there for convenience. Neither of them is the special method __add__. But it seems that nobody uses the official operator.__add__ function, and Terry Reedy says there are no tests for it. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
