Passing expressions to functions?

Question

I\'m not quite sure what I mean here, so please bear with me..

In SQLAlchemy, it appears I\'m supposed to pass an expression to filter() in certain cases. When I try to

Answer 1

An even more pythonic variant of Nelson's solution is to use the operator functions from the operator module in the standard library; there is no need to create your own lambdas.

>>> from operator import eq
>>> def magic(left, op, right):
...   return op(left, right)
... 
>>> magic(5, eq, 5)
True