[Python-Dev] Efficient predicates for the standard library

[Christian Stork]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:26:48AM -0400, Jeremy Fincher wrote:
...
> >     def some(pred, seq):
> > 	"Returns True if pred(x) is True at least one element in the iterable"
> > 	return True in imap(pred, seq)
> >
> >     def no(pred, seq):
> > 	"Returns True if pred(x) is False for every element in the iterable"
> > 	return True not in imap(pred, seq)
> 
> I would instead call some "any" (it's more standard among the functional 
> languages I've worked with), and I wouldn't bother with "no," since it's 
> exactly the same as "not any" (or "not some," as the case may be).
 
Yep, seems better.

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