If the deciders prefer to have these in the operator module for 3.8 (as Yury and Jelle requested above), my PR from a few months ago which implements this (https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/8895) can still be merged with no conflicts. I don't think any other changes to that patch are requested before it can be merged (i.e. it's only stalled on the decision whether to add these to builtins or operator), but I can still make time to address any new requested code changes if these are to go in operator.

If these are to go in builtins instead, @nanjekyejoannah has volunteered to pick that up. So it seems like this can move forward one way or the other once we have a decision on operator vs. builtins.