[Python-Dev] Adding any() and all()

[Nick Coghlan]

Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:
> OFF-TOPIC:
> 
> It is curious though that we choose to read an *implicit*
> True in [all(), any()] instead of an implicit False.

Actually, I think it's predicate logic's fault:

   if p(x) for any x then conclusion 1

   if q(x) for all x then conclusion 2

Cheers,
Nick.

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