[Python-Dev] product()
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Mon Oct 27 04:06:35 EST 2003
Jeremy Fincher strung bits together to say:
> On Sunday 26 October 2003 09:39 am, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> >>> if any(not pred(x) for x in values): pass # anyfalse
> if not all(pred(x) for x in values): pass
>> >>> if all(not pred(x) for x in values): pass # allfalse
> if not any(pred(x) for x in values): pass
> It's slightly more efficient (only one negation), and it seems to maintain
> better the pseudocode-like aspect that we so much adore in Python :)
I originally wrote them out the way you suggest, but then changed them after I
added the comment that indicated what each example represented (as the less
efficient versions more literally match the comments).
Anyway, I suspect those used to the idiom would use the forms you suggest. There
might be some variation due to the multiple ways of writing the expressions
(using any/all), but I doubt that would be worse than the confusion created by
the double negative needed to express either any or all in terms of the other.
Cheers,
Nick.
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