On 2007-08-15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, the author makes the claim that the term > "Predicate" is "bandied about quite a bit in the literature" of > Python. I have 17 or so Python books and I don't think I've > ever seen this used in conjunction with Python...or in any of > the docs I've skimmed. What the!?
The document searching facility reveals that the term is bandied about in five places in the standard documentation. These uses seem approriate and uncontroversial to me. These document functions accepting predicates as aruments: 6.5.1 Itertools functions 6.5.3 Recipes 11.47 Creating a new Distutils command 26.10.1 Types and members The following provides a few predicate functions (weird! I'd have never thought to look there for, e.g., ismodule): 6.7 operator -- Standard operators as functions -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
