[Python-Dev] Any reason that any()/all() do not take a predicate argument? (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Apr 13 10:10:42 CEST 2006


Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

Hi,

sorry if this came up before, but I tried searching the archives and found nothing. It would be really nice if new builtin truth functions in 2.5 took a predicate argument(defaults to bool), so one could write, for example: seq = [1,2,3,4,5] if any(seq, lambda x: x==5): ...

Well, does

if any(x == 5 for x in seq)

meet your needs?

Georg



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