How/why do we use operator.abs

Question

In operators module we have a helper method operator.abs. But in python abs is already a function, and the only way I know to invoke

Answer 1

abs(...)
    abs(a) -- Same as abs(a).

No, I don’t think there’s some other fancy way you don’t know about, or really any reason at all for this to be here at all except for consistency (since operator has methods for the other __operator__s).