From the article:
The operator module exports a set of
functions implemented in C
corresponding to the intrinsic
operators of Python. For example,
operator.add(x, y) is equivalent to
the expression x+y. The function names
are those used for special class
methods; variants without leading and
trailing __ are also provided for
convenience.
I'm not sure I understand the benefit or purpose of this module.
解决方案
Possibly the most popular usage is operator.itemgetter. Given a list lst of tuples, you can sort by the ith element by: lst.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(i))
Certainly, you could do the same thing without operator by defining your own key function, but the operator module makes it slightly neater.
As to the rest, python allows a functional style of programming, and so it can come up -- for instance, Greg's reduce example.
You might argue: "Why do I need operator.add when I can just do: add = lambda x, y: x+y?" The answers are:
operator.add is (I think) slightly faster.
It makes the code easier to understand for you, or another person later, looking at it. They don't need to look for the definition of add, because they know what the operator module does.
operator.add is picklable, while lambda is not. This means that the function can be saved to disk or passed between processes.