Suppose I have a long list of objects (say, a list of numpy matrices of bool elements) foo = [a, b, c], that I want to compare with some bitwise operator, to get something like a | b | c.
If I could use this bitwise operation as a function, say a bitwiseor function, I could simply do this with bitwiseor(*foo).
However, I was not able to find whether the bitwise or can be written in such functional form.
Is there some handy way to handle this kind of problem? Or should I just use a loop to compare all the elements cumulatively?
Using the functional method in operator in combination with functools.reduce:
>>> import operator, functools
>>> functools.reduce(operator.or_, [1, 2, 3])
3