The suggestion is to add boolean and/or functions to the operator module, useful with "reduce". For some reason I thought these were already present, but they're not (were they removed?). There are already and_ and or_, but these are bitwise functions, not boolean operations.
bool_and and bool_or would differ from the "and" and "or" keywords, since they're functions and cannot short-circuit. Specification: operator.bool_and(x,y) = (bool(x) & bool(y)) operator.bool_or(x,y) = (bool(x) | bool(y)) Use case: from operator import bool_and, bool_or def any(seq): return reduce(bool_or, seq, False) def all(seq): return reduce(bool_and, seq, True) Of course you could use map(bool,seq), but now that we have bools it's reasonable to have these boolean operations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
