Why is operator module missing `and` and `or`?

Question

operator module makes it easy to avoid unnecessary functions and lambdas in situations like this:

import operator

def mytest(op, list1, list2):
    ok = [op(i1,         


        

Answer 1

You can write these yourself, but you'll need to pass a function (e.g. lambda) for the second argument to prevent it from being evaluated at call time, assuming that the usual short-circuiting behavior is important to you.

def func_or(val1, fval2):
    return val1 or fval2()

def func_and(val1, fval2):
    return val1 and fval2()

Usage:

func_or(False, lambda: True)
func_and(True, lambda: False)