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Author	gvanrossum
Recipients	belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, gvanrossum, rhettinger
Date	2008-02-26.04:40:59
SpamBayes Score	0.03209166
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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> What do you guys think about just making the predicate argument optional? > > filter([-2,0,2]) --> -2, 2 > filter(pred, iterable) > > One arg is the first case and two args is the second case. -1. Apart from range() this is used nowhere else in Python. (Well, it is in curses, but it's an abomination there too.) I'd rather keep explicit None that this, though I really don't see what's wrong with filter(bool, ...) -- you can even optimize for that pattern.

>  What do you guys think about just making the predicate argument optional?
>
>    filter([-2,0,2]) --> -2, 2
>    filter(pred, iterable)
>
>  One arg is the first case and two args is the second case.

-1. Apart from range() this is used nowhere else in Python. (Well, it
is in curses, but it's an abomination there too.) I'd rather keep
explicit None that *this*, though I really don't see what's wrong with
filter(bool, ...) -- you can even optimize for that pattern.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-26 04:41:02	gvanrossum	set	spambayes_score: 0.0320917 -> 0.03209166 recipients: + gvanrossum, rhettinger, belopolsky, benjamin.peterson
2008-02-26 04:41:00	gvanrossum	link	issue2186 messages
2008-02-26 04:40:59	gvanrossum	create