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[Python-ideas] Break the dominance of boolean values in boolean context

Sven Marnach sven at marnach.net
Thu Sep 15 14:30:44 CEST 2011 
MRAB schrieb am Mi, 14. Sep 2011, um 18:19:45 +0100:
> I had a use-case recently.
> 
> I was looking for an entry in a pseudo-dict, where the key didn't have
> to be an exact match, so I called the .get method on the pseudo-dict
> until it returned a true-ish value (the value would never be false-ish).
> 
> I just wrote a short function to do what I wanted.

FWIW, I just came to python-ideas to propose the same change to any()
for the same use case (look-up in a pseudo dict).  I needed this
several times now, and I would consider the change to any()
worthwhile.  (For consistency, all() would also have to be changed,
though I didn't have a use case yet.)

 -- Sven
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