On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Bill Janssen wrote: >Raymond Hettinger: >> >> Over time, I've gotten feedback about these and other itertools recipes. >> No one has objected to the True/False return values in those recipes or >> in Guido's version. >> >> Guido's version matches the normal expectation of any/all being a >> predicate. Also, it avoids the kind of errors/confusion that people >> currently experience with Python's unique implementation of "and" and >> "or". >> >> Returning the last element is not evil; it's just weird, unexpected, and >> non-obvious. Resist the urge to get tricky with this one.
+1 > Fine, but then let's keep reduce(), which has this nice property. -1 -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
