Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> writes: > FWIW, I wrote the docs. The pure python forms were put in > as an integral part of the documentation. The first > sentence of prose was not meant to stand alone. It is a > lead-in to the code which makes explicit the short-circuiting > behavior and the behavior when the input is empty. > Someone else seems to have written "What's new in Python 2.5" documention which states:
"Two new built-in functions, any() and all(), evaluate whether an iterator contains any true or false values. any() returns True if any value returned by the iterator is true; otherwise it will return False. all() returns True only if all of the values returned by the iterator evaluate as true." This description of all() doesn't seem to be correct. > I will probably leave the lead-in sentence as-is but may > add another sentence specifically covering the case for > an empty iterable. > Does this change cover the documentation returned by help(all) and help(any)? Jani Hakala -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
