[Python-Dev] Any reason that any()/all() do not takea predicateargument?

[Andrew Koenig]

> > How about this?
> >
> > 	if any(x==5 for x in seq):
> 
> Aren't all of these equivalent to:
> 
> if 5 in seq:
>      ...

Of course.  However, the original example was pretty clearly intended to be
an illustrative instance of a more general problem.  Rewriting the example
as any(x==5 for x in seq) preserves the generality; rewriting it as 5 in seq
doesn't.