Why aren't “and” and “or” operators in Python?

Question

I wasn\'t aware of this, but apparently the and and or keywords aren\'t operators. They don\'t appear in the list of python operators. Just out of sh

Answer 1

Python does not currently provide any 'xxx' special methods corresponding to the 'and', 'or' and 'not' boolean operators. In the case of 'and' and 'or', the most likely reason is that these operators have short-circuiting semantics, i.e. the second operand is not evaluated if the result can be determined from the first operand. The usual technique of providing special methods for these operators therefore would not work.

Source: PEP 335

PEP 335 talks about adding the ability to have overloadable operators, and discusses this issue a bit.