danieldelay danielde...@gmail.com wrote:
Does GVR prefers beauty to power ?
Not in the beginning, but in recent years things are tending this way. And,
frankly, I don't think that's a Bad Thing at all.
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On Jun 8, 2:16 pm, danieldelay danielde...@gmail.com wrote:
def firsttrue(iterable):
for element in iterable:
if element:
return element
return None
This function firsttrue( ) could probably be used anywhere any( ) is
used, but with the ability to
Le 09/06/2010 08:54, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :
next(ifilter(None, d), False)
Good, this is rather short and does the job !...
I should try to use more often this itertools module.
Thanks
Daniel
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Hi,
I find very useful in python the ability to use a list or number x like
a boolean :
if x :
do something
So I don't understand why was introduced the any( ) function defined as :
def any(iterable):
for element in iterable:
if element:
return True
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:16 PM, danieldelay danielde...@gmail.com wrote:
This function firsttrue( ) could probably be used anywhere any( ) is
used, but with the ability to retrieve the first element where bool(element)
is True, which may be sometimes usefull.
I suppose that there is a reason
Le 09/06/2010 00:24, Ian Kelly a écrit :
Because it was designed as a replacement for reduce(lambda x, y: x or
y, iterable). The problem arises when the iterable is empty. What
false value should be returned? If the iterable is a sequence of
bools, then None doesn't fit. If the iterable is a
danieldelay wrote:
Le 09/06/2010 00:24, Ian Kelly a écrit :
Because it was designed as a replacement for reduce(lambda x, y: x or
y, iterable). The problem arises when the iterable is empty. What
false value should be returned? If the iterable is a sequence of
bools, then None doesn't fit.
On 06/08/2010 06:18 PM, MRAB wrote:
danieldelay wrote:
firsttrue(line.strip() for line in '\n\n \n CHEERS \n'.split('\n'))
Should 'firsttrue' return None? Surely, if none are true then it should
raise an exception.
which can fairly elegantly be written with stock-Python as
# try:
On Jun 8, 4:08 pm, danieldelay danielde...@gmail.com wrote:
Le 09/06/2010 00:24, Ian Kelly a crit :
Because it was designed as a replacement for reduce(lambda x, y: x or
y, iterable). The problem arises when the iterable is empty. What
false value should be returned? If the iterable is
