New submission from Zbigniew Braniecki <zbigniew.branie...@gmail.com>:
Python has a very useful function any() that will iterate over a list
and break on the first matching case.
Now, it would be great to have similar function but with:
a) ability to use a callback for matching test
b) that would return the first match
so something like:
key = first(['es-AR','es','en-US'], lambda x:self._value.has_key(x))
instead of:
for k in ['es-AR','es','en-US']:
if self._value.has_key(k):
key = k
break
It would be also nice to be able to capture the first match and return it:
value = first(['es-AR','es','en-US'], lambda x:self._value[x])
I'm not sure which one is more generically applicable.
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components: None
messages: 89879
nosy: gandalf
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add first() function that would take first matching case from an iterator
versions: Python 3.1
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