[Python-ideas] Allow filter(items)

[João Bernardo]

-1 There should be only one way and there are lots of ways already. Use a
genexp for readability: (x for x in items if x)

João Bernardo


2013/8/5 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>

> 05.08.13 20:32, Markus Unterwaditzer написав(ла):
>
>  -0, for reasons already mentioned. While i agree that filter(None, items)
>> is counterintuitive, filter(bool, items) looks very readable to me.
>>
>
> filter(bool, items) is redundant in same sense as `if bool(x)`, `for x in
> iter(items)`, or `"%s" % str(x)`. A result of the predicate is implicitly
> called to boolean.
>
>
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