[Numpy-discussion] (a and b) != (b and a) ?

[Chris Barker]

Tim Hochberg wrote:
> > I imagine there is a compelling reason that "and" and "or" have not been
> > overridden like the comparison operators, but it sure would be nice!
> 
> Because it's not possible?

Well, yes, but it wasn't possible with <,>,== and friends untill rich
comparisons were added in Python 2.1. So I am still wondering why the
same extension wasn't made to "and" and "or". In fact, given that Guido
is adding a bool type, this may be a time to re-visit the question,
unless there really is a compelling reason not to, which is quite
likely. 

> In practice I haven't found this to be much of a problem. Nearly every time
> I need to and two arrays together, "&" works just as well as logical_and.

This has always worked for me, as well, so maybe the answer is that
there is no compelling reason to make a change.

-Chris


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