On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > 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! I only tried it in Python 3.4, and I got true. Perhaps it was optimized slightly after 3.3? Chris
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