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leewz mannequin opened this issue Dec 11, 2015 · 4 comments
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Allow False to be passed to filter #70027

leewz mannequin opened this issue Dec 11, 2015 · 4 comments
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leewz mannequin commented Dec 11, 2015
BPO 25840
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leewz mannequin commented Dec 11, 2015

Meaning:

    filter(False, lst)
    == (x for x in lst if not x)
    == itertools.filterfalse(None, lst)

I understand that it is a very minor enhancement, and with not much benefit. I just happened to think about it, and wondered why it didn't already exist. I figured it wouldn't hurt to put the idea out here.

(If anyone is interested, I was looking into ways that filter/map/itertools could "unwrap" each other at the C level to improve composition of generators, inspired by the functools.partial optimization.)

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Vgr255 mannequin commented Dec 11, 2015

Do you mean like 'filter(None, lst)' does?

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I don't think it is worth adding as a special case. Itertools has it because of what itertools is (a mini-language for manipulating iterables), but the legacy filter function has no reason to grow additional special cases beyond None. (It's not even clear why it has that one special case :)

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leewz mannequin commented Dec 11, 2015

ebarry, note that filter(None, lst) is equivalent to filter(bool, lst), which is the opposite of filterfalse(None, lst). (Though filter(True, lst) == filter(bool, lst) would be a parallel.)

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