[Python-Dev] Any reason that any()/all() do not take a predicate argument?

Hi, 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Any reason that any()/all() do not take a predicate argument?

Andrew Koenig acm.org> writes: > How about this? > > if any(x==5 for x in seq): Cool! Thank you. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/o