> 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): > ... > > 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): _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com