[Python-ideas] Infix application of binary functions

[Dag Odenhall]

It could help readability if binary (arity of 2) functions could be
applied infix with some syntax. For example, borrowing from Haskell, the
backtick could be reintroduced for this purpose.

Good examples for this are isinstance and hasattr:

    if some_object `isinstance` Iterable:
        ...
    elif some_object `hasattr` '__iter__':
        ...

It is already possible[1] to make infix functions, but the solution is
a hack and requires functions to be marked as infix.

(The use of backticks is just an example borrowing from Haskell and
might not be optimal, although a benefit is that it isn't very noisy.)

[1] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/384122-infix-operators/