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

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Sat Apr 15 10:53:48 CEST 2006


seq = [1,2,3,4,5] if any(seq, lambda x: x==5): ...

which is clearly more readable than reduce(seq, lambda x,y: x or y==5, False) How about this? if any(x==5 for x in seq):

Aren't all of these equivalent to:

if 5 in seq: ...

?

Cheers, Brian



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