Embarrasing questio

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 12, 6:22 pm, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> Michele Simionato wrote:
>> > On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights <GDoerm... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote
>>
>> >> <catherine.heathc... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just
>> >>> trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of:
>> >>> if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0)
>> >>> Thanks.
>> >> in 2.5 and above you can do
>> >> if any(i%3 == 0, i%5 == 0)
>>
>> > You are missing a few parenthesis: if any([i%3 == 0, i%5 == 0]) (but
>> > the idiomatic solution is to use or).
>>
>> any() is really only useful with a generator, otherwise you're always
>> evaluating both conditions, unlike the solution with 'or'.
>
> Indeed.

any(f() for f in (lambda: i % 3 == 0, lambda: i % 5 == 0))

:-)