[Python-ideas] Function to return first(or last) true value from list

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I think the basic problem is that a few exceptions are intended for the
> Python interpreter itself, but that's easy to forget, particularly since
> that list is so small:
>
>   StopIteration
>   ...
>   um, any others?

There are other exceptions that have particular semantics associated
with them. SystemExit is not printed to stderr if it propagates all
the way up

ChrisA