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Re: Iterators membership testing

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Iterators membership testing
Date 2015-08-09 14:45 +0100
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On 09/08/2015 14:11, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Tim Chase <tim@thechases.com> wrote:
>> 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)
>
> Indeed it can, although I'm not sure whether it'd just have been
> another step in the explanation :) Whether or not that makes perfect
> sense depends on the reader.
>
> ChrisA
>

This one probably won't make make sense to most readers.

any("Australian batsmen scored any() runs recently?")

See also 
http://www.cricketcountry.com/photos/photo-england-supporters-sell-hardly-used-australian-bats-314378 
:)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Iterators membership testing Pierre Quentel <pierre.quentel@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 02:06 -0700
  Re: Iterators membership testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 19:24 +1000
    Re: Iterators membership testing Pierre Quentel <pierre.quentel@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 02:55 -0700
      Re: Iterators membership testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 20:13 +1000
        Re: Iterators membership testing Pierre Quentel <pierre.quentel@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 04:00 -0700
          Re: Iterators membership testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 21:10 +1000
      Re: Iterators membership testing Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-09 13:30 +0200
      Re: Iterators membership testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-09 14:49 +0100
  Re: Iterators membership testing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 23:11 +1000
  Re: Iterators membership testing Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-08-09 08:09 -0500
  Re: Iterators membership testing Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-09 14:45 +0100
  Re: Iterators membership testing Tim Chase <tim@thechases.com> - 2015-08-09 08:09 -0500

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