any() and all() on empty list?
Paul Rubin
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Wed Mar 29 00:40:49 EST 2006
"Steve R. Hastings" <steve at hastings.org> writes:
> In the all() example, if there *are* no values in S, then none of the
> values can be != 0, and IMHO all() should return False.
That goes against the usual meaning of "all" in, say, mathematical logic.
Usually, "for all X in S, PRED(x) is true" means:
there does not exist X in S so that PRED(x) is false.
So, all(empty sequence) should be true.
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