[Python-ideas] startsin ?

[Mike Graham]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:46 AM, David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:

> I tend to do something like this a lot;
>
>   any(somestring.startswith(x) for x in starts)
>
> Probably enough that having a method would be nice.
>
>
I wonder if it might be worthwhile to give any and all two-parameter API for
predicate functions, so that

    any(f, xs)

is the same as

    any(f(x) for x in xs)

This eliminates some really common boilerplate, but it adds complication and
has an ugly API.


Mike
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