builtin functions for and and or?

[Brian Beck]

George Sakkis wrote:
> You're right, it doesn't short circuit, as most of the examples posted above. Here's one that it
> does:
> 
> ...

I also looked into taking advantage of itertools' dropwhile, but the all 
and any recipes included in the itertools documentation do short-circuit 
and don't require the setup of a try/except/else.

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Brian Beck
Adventurer of the First Order