--- Modules/_operator.c	2013-10-28 22:16:34.418135194 +0100
+++ Modules/_operator.c.new	2013-10-28 22:14:38.828344349 +0100
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@

 static struct PyModuleDef operatormodule = {
     PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
-    "_operator",
+    "operator",
     operator_doc,
     -1,
     operator_methods,
@@ -933,9 +933,9 @@
 };

 PyMODINIT_FUNC
-PyInit__operator(void)
+PyInit_operator(void)
 {
-    PyObject *m;
+    PyObject *m, *mdict;

     /* Create the module and add the functions */
     m = PyModule_Create(&operatormodule);
@@ -956,5 +956,64 @@
         return NULL;
     Py_INCREF(&methodcaller_type);
     PyModule_AddObject(m, "methodcaller", (PyObject *)&methodcaller_type);
+
+
+    mdict = PyModule_GetDict(m);
+    if (mdict == NULL)
+        return NULL;
+
+#define ALIAS(alias, name) \
+    do { \
+        PyObject *v = PyDict_GetItemString(mdict, name); \
+        if (v == NULL) \
+            return NULL; \
+        if (PyDict_SetItemString(mdict, alias, v)) \
+            return NULL; \
+    } while (0)
+
+    ALIAS("__lt__", "lt");
+    ALIAS("__le__", "le");
+    ALIAS("__eq__", "eq");
+    ALIAS("__ne__", "ne");
+    ALIAS("__ge__", "ge");
+    ALIAS("__gt__", "gt");
+    ALIAS("__not__", "not_");
+    ALIAS("__abs__", "abs");
+    ALIAS("__add__", "add");
+    ALIAS("__and__", "and_");
+    ALIAS("__floordiv__", "floordiv");
+    ALIAS("__index__", "index");
+    ALIAS("__inv__", "inv");
+    ALIAS("__invert__", "invert");
+    ALIAS("__lshift__", "lshift");
+    ALIAS("__mod__", "mod");
+    ALIAS("__mul__", "mul");
+    ALIAS("__neg__", "neg");
+    ALIAS("__or__", "or_");
+    ALIAS("__pos__", "pos");
+    ALIAS("__pow__", "pow");
+    ALIAS("__rshift__", "rshift");
+    ALIAS("__sub__", "sub");
+    ALIAS("__truediv__", "truediv");
+    ALIAS("__xor__", "xor");
+    ALIAS("__concat__", "concat");
+    ALIAS("__contains__", "contains");
+    ALIAS("__delitem__", "delitem");
+    ALIAS("__getitem__", "getitem");
+    ALIAS("__setitem__", "setitem");
+    ALIAS("__iadd__", "iadd");
+    ALIAS("__iand__", "iand");
+    ALIAS("__iconcat__", "iconcat");
+    ALIAS("__ifloordiv__", "ifloordiv");
+    ALIAS("__ilshift__", "ilshift");
+    ALIAS("__imod__", "imod");
+    ALIAS("__imul__", "imul");
+    ALIAS("__ior__", "ior");
+    ALIAS("__ipow__", "ipow");
+    ALIAS("__irshift__", "irshift");
+    ALIAS("__isub__", "isub");
+    ALIAS("__itruediv__", "itruediv");
+    ALIAS("__ixor__", "ixor");
+
     return m;
 }
--- Lib/operator.py	2013-10-28 22:16:34.412135361 +0100
+++ Lib/operator.py.new	2013-10-28 22:14:45.435160938 +0100
@@ -358,15 +358,6 @@
     return a


-try:
-    from _operator import *
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-else:
-    from _operator import __doc__
-
-# All of these "__func__ = func" assignments have to happen after importing
-# from _operator to make sure they're set to the right function
 __lt__ = lt
 __le__ = le
 __eq__ = eq
diff -r 2d802765d31f Lib/test/test_operator.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_operator.py	Mon Oct 28 19:16:21 2013 +0100
+++ b/Lib/test/test_operator.py	Mon Oct 28 22:13:09 2013 +0100
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import unittest

 from test import support

-py_operator = support.import_fresh_module('operator', blocked=['_operator'])
-c_operator = support.import_fresh_module('operator', fresh=['_operator'])
+py_operator = support.import_fresh_module('operator')
+c_operator = support.import_fresh_module('_pyoperator')

 class Seq1:
     def __init__(self, lst):