Re: [Python-ideas] startsin ?

Mike Graham writes:

I wonder if it might be worthwhile to give any and all two-parameter API for predicate functions, so that

any(f, xs)

is the same as

any(f(x) for x in xs)

This eliminates some really common boilerplate, but it adds complication and has an ugly API.

-1. The comprehension is not just boilerplate, it's documentation.