See my blog: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=98196
Do we even need a PEP or is there a volunteer who'll add any() and all() for me?
Surely these can be written easily with existing constructs:
def any(S): return reduce(lambda x, y: bool(x or y), filter(None,S), False))
def all(S): return reduce(lambda x, y: x and y, map(bool, S), True)
;-)
Michael
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