On Dec 27, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:50:37PM -0800, Alex Martelli wrote: > > I'll answer here for all the people who kindly answered. > >> Why would that be better than >> any(o.some_attribute for o in some_objects) >> ? > > I think it's because lately I've been using common lisp a lot and > the approach > with the test function is pretty common there. > > Of course I already knew all the alternatives using map and the > generator > expression, but I felt like mine was clearer for a reader, this is > probably > true but not enough to justify the change. I think that generator/list expressions are more common practice than attrgetter/itemgetter, so I'm not even sure it's clearer. I don't see the harm in a "key" argument like sorted has, but without a key argument it could be extended to take more arguments like max/ min do for convenience. e.g. any(a, b, c) instead of any((a, b, c)). -bob
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