[Python-ideas] data structures should have an .any() method

[Lie Ryan]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 
>> It would therefore be nice to have a common ".any()" method on data
>> structures that would just read an arbitrary item from a container.
> 
> Rather than add a method to every container implementation,
> it would be easier to provide a function:
> 
>    def first(obj):
>      return iter(ob).next()
> 
> possibly with some embellishments to handle StopIteration,
> allow for a default value, etc.
> 

Which would imply a request for last().