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icon: package
label: operator
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The operator module exports a set of efficient functions corresponding to the intrinsic operators of Python. For example, operator.add(x, y) is equivalent to the expression x+y.
Many function names are those used for special methods, without the double underscores.

+ `operator.lt(a, b)`
+ `operator.le(a, b)`
+ `operator.eq(a, b)`
+ `operator.ne(a, b)`
+ `operator.ge(a, b)`
+ `operator.gt(a, b)`