[Tutor] Function that returns True if a list contains odd number else return False

[Alan Gauld]

On 10/03/2022 17:14, Manprit Singh wrote:

> Above problem can be solved in two way :
> 
> Inside a  user defined function just returning
> 1) any(1 for ele in seq if ele%2)
> 
> 2)  any(ele%2  for ele in seq)

Intuitively, number 2 should be slightly faster since it
doesn't have an extra test/assignment but in practice
you can only tell by measuring them.

Either of them would be acceptable but personally
I'd favour the second since it expresses the intent
more directly.


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