And why not use the names already in use in numarray/Numeric ?
They are called "sometrue" and "alltrue" ... IMHO, it explicits more what it means :
alltrue(i<5 for i in l) sometrue(i<5 for i in l)
Another point is: as I agree there is already a huge lot of builtins, shouldn't it be in some module ? Perhaps in itertools ?
Pierre
PS: It's my first post on the list, even if I'm reading it for a few months now ^_^
Peter Astrand a écrit :
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Paul Moore wrote:
Not sure this is pertinent but anyway: "any" and "all" are often used as variable names. "all" especially often and then almost always as a list of something. It would not be good to add "all" to the list of words to watch out for. Also, "all" is usually thought of as a list of
Using "any" and "all" as variables hides the builtins, but doesn't disallow their use elsewhere. Personally, though, I wouldn't use "any" or "all" as variable names, so that's a style issue.
Even though you can use them as variables (and shadow the builtins), you will still get warnings from "pychecker". The code will also be harder to read: When you see "all" in the middle of some code, you don't know if it's referring to the builtin or a variable.
Personally, I think Python has too many builtins already.
/Peter Åstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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