[Python-ideas] Break the dominance of boolean values in boolean context

[Carl Matthew Johnson]

On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> On 15/09/11 11:25, MRAB wrote:
> 
>> Could it also have something like a 'key' argument, by default
>> __bool__?
> 
> Or more generally, a function.
> 
> Although that's not strictly necessary. If there were a first()
> function that simply returned the first item from an iterator,
> whether true or not, one could write
> 
>  first(itertools.ifilter(func, something))
> 

Time machine:

next(filter(func, something)) #in Python 3, filter is ifilter!

:-D