> Py2.5 is already going to include any() and all() as builtins. The signature > does not include a function, identity or otherwise. Instead, the caller can > write a listcomp or genexp that evaluates to True or False: > > any(x >= 42 for x in data) > > If you wanted an identify function, that simplifies to just: > > any(data)
Oh great, I just saw that. I was referring to this, which didn't get much discussion: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051556.html but it looks like it went much further, to builtins! I'm surprised. But I wish it could be included in Python 2.4.x. I really hope it won't have any bugs in it. :) At my job we are probably going to upgrade to 2.4, and that takes a long time, so it'll probably be a year or 18 months after that happens (which itself might be months from now) that we would consider upgrading again. Oh well... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
