ishexdigit()

[Uwe Schmitt]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Well, more Pythonish yet is to avoid the extraneous local variables, avoid
> the use of a type as a parameter name, and use as many little-used builtins
> as possible:

...

>    def ishexstring(strng):
>        return filter(ishexdigit, strng) == strng

better/faster/more pythonic:

         return reduce(lambda a,b: a and ishexdigit(b), strng, True)

Greetings, Uwe

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