operator — Easy Playground

Standard operators as functions: itemgetter, attrgetter, add, mul

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import operator

# Operator functions
print(operator.add(3, 4))
print(operator.mul(5, 6))

# itemgetter for sorting
from operator import itemgetter
data = [("Alice", 30), ("Bob", 25), ("Charlie", 35)]
print(sorted(data, key=itemgetter(1)))

Output

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The operator module is part of Python's standard library. Standard operators as functions: itemgetter, attrgetter, add, mul.

Challenge

Try modifying the code above to explore different behaviors. Can you extend the example to handle a new use case?

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