jazbees <jazb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> hasvowels = lambda x:max([y in x for y in "aeiou"])
>>>> hasvowels("parsnips")
> True
>>>> hasvowels("sfwdkj")
> False
>
Do you object to using def to define functions?
Anyway, it is probably clearer to use the builtin 'any' for code like this:
>>> def hasvowels(s):
... return any(v in s for v in "aeiou")
...
>>> hasvowels("parsnips")
True
>>> hasvowels("sfwdkj")
False
>>>
>>>> foo = ["green", "orange"]
>>>> bar = ["blue", "green", "red", "yellow"]
>>>> found = lambda x,y:max([z in y for z in x] if x else [False])
>>>> found(foo, bar)
> True
>>>> foo = []
>>>> found(foo, bar)
> False
If you are doing a lot of this consider whether you might be better off
using sets:
>>> def found(x,y):
... return bool(set(x).intersection(y))
...
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