[Python-Dev] Any reason that any()/all() do not take a predicate argument?

[Georg Brandl]

Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry if this came up before, but I tried searching the archives and
> found nothing.  It would be really nice if new builtin truth functions
> in 2.5 took a predicate argument(defaults to bool), so one could
> write, for example:
> 
> seq = [1,2,3,4,5]
> if any(seq, lambda x: x==5):
> ...

Well, does

if any(x == 5 for x in seq)

meet your needs?

Georg