a_list.count(a_callable) ?

[Ping]

Hi,

I'm wondering if it is useful to extend the count() method of a list
to accept a callable object?  What it does should be quite intuitive:
count the number of items that the callable returns True or anything
logically equivalent (non-empty sequence, non-zero number, etc).

This would return the same result as len(filter(a_callable, a_list)),
but without constructing an intermediate list which is thrown away
after len() is done.

This would also be equivalent to
n = 0
for i in a_list:
    if a_callable(i):  n += 1
but with much shorter and easier-to-read code.  It would also run
faster.

This is my first post and please bear with me if I'm not posting it in
the right way.

Regards,
Ping