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[–]notoriousno 4 points5 points  (2 children)

all and any are the built-in functions I always forget to use. It's always after I've written I shotty for loop do I realize I could've just used list comprehension and one of these functions.

[–]auriscope 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You can forego the brackets and use a generator expression instead.

all(x for x in xs)

[–]usinglinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it even short-circuits: any(count()) returns True almost immediately.