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On 2015-08-09 19:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That's exactly right. The only way for the interpreter to handle
> 'in' on an iterator is something like this:
> 
> def contains(iter, obj):
>     for val in iter:
>         if val == obj: return True
>     return False

Which can nicely be written as

  any(i == obj for obj in iter)

The addition of any/all initially struck me as a "why?! this is so
easy to write in-line" moment, only to find myself using them all()
the time. :-) The code-intention becomes so much clearer.  Even
back-ported them to 2.4 code that I maintain.

-tkc