[Python-Dev] Adding any() and all() (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jhylton at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 16:39:54 CET 2005


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:19:56 -0800, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I think Python has too many builtins already.

It has fewer than most dynamic languages; and remember that I'm trading product(), any(), all() for reduce(), map() and filter(). There are others slated for disappearance, too.

I think I'd miss reduce, but I'd be happy to have it moved to an extension module. There's no need for reduce to be a builtin. I'd be very happy to have any and all around.

Jeremy



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