30-seconds-of-code/snippets/some.md

title, tags

title	tags
some	list,function,intermediate

Returns True if the provided function returns True for at least one element in the list, False otherwise.

• Use any() in combination with map() and fn to check if fn returns True for any element in the list.

def some(lst, fn=lambda x: x):
  return any(map(fn, lst))

some([0, 1, 2, 0], lambda x: x >= 2 ) # True
some([0, 0, 1, 0]) # True