A boolean branch is applied to each element of an iterable

Question

Is there a pythonic way of saying, “Is this true for any element in this iterable”? Or, in other words, there is a cleaner version of this:

if [True for x in mylist if my_condition(x)]:
    ...

Answer 1

You can use any:

>>> mylist = [1, 2, 3]
>>> any(x > 4 for x in mylist)
False
>>> any(x % 2 == 0 for x in mylist)
True

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if any(my_condition(x) for x in mylist):
    ....

NOTE. Using the expression generator instead of understanding the list, you do not need to evaluate all the elements.