On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Tim Chase <t...@thechases.com> wrote: > On 2015-08-09 19:24, Chris Angelico wrote: >> That's exactly right. The only way for the interpreter to handle >> 'in' on an iterator is something like this: >> >> def contains(iter, obj): >> for val in iter: >> if val == obj: return True >> return False > > Which can nicely be written as > > any(i == obj for obj in iter)
Indeed it can, although I'm not sure whether it'd just have been another step in the explanation :) Whether or not that makes perfect sense depends on the reader. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
