Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Module inspect also provides useful predicates (though I don't remember if its docs CALL them predicates;-). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
