> sorry if this came up before, but I tried searching the archives and
> found nothing. It would be really nice if new builtin truth functions
> in 2.5 took a predicate argument(defaults to bool), so one could
> write, for example:
>
> seq = [1,2,3,4,5]
> if any(seq, lambda x: x==5):
> ...
>
> which is clearly more readable than
>
> reduce(seq, lambda x,y: x or y==5, False)
How about this?
if any(x==5 for x in seq):
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