[oe] [PATCH] base.bbclass: add 'any' and 'all' functions.

[Chris Larson]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther <
holger+oe at freyther.de <holger%2Boe at freyther.de>> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 21:01:07 Chris Larson wrote:
> > Python 2.5+ has these functions built-in, but we don't yet require 2.5+.
> >
>
> do we use all/any in the metadata? or is MVista using? If the answer is yes
> then... I'm acking the patch.
>

We don't yet.  I've used it in some classes and .inc files in MVL6 that I
plan on pushing to OE.  They're much more useful than you'd think.  As an
example, I had some code where I had a list of path prefixes which were
allowed, and wanted to check a filename against them:

if any(path.startswith(prefix + "/") for prefix in allowedpaths):
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Chris Larson
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clarson at mvista dot com
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