> 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.
Fine, but then let's keep reduce(), which has this nice property. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
