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Re: Bug#711359: ITP: python-first -- simple function that returns the first true value from an iterable



On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, June 06, 2013 09:01:05 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Owner: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
> > > 
> > > * Package name    : python-first
> > > 
> > >   Version         : 2.0.0
> > >   Upstream Author : Hynek Schlawack
> > > 
> > > * URL             : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/first
> > > * License         : MIT
> > > 
> > >   Programming Lang: Python
> > >   Description     : simple function that returns the first true value from
> > >   an iterable> 
> > > A MIT licensed Python package with a simple function that returns the
> > > first true value from an iterable, or None if there is none. If you need
> > > more power, you can also supply a key function that is used to judge the
> > > truth value of the element or a default value if None doesn’t fit your
> > > use case.
> > 
> > Is that a dependency for something else?
> > The software contains 10 lines that can be considered code.
> I haven't looked at the code but you can do this in one line with itertools 
> and a combination of keepwhile and dropwhile.

An example would be helpful, I think. I don't think it's immediately obvious to
most people.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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