Why does python `any` return a bool instead of the value?

Question

and and or return the last element they evaluated, but why doesn\'t Python\'s built-in function any?

I mean it\'s pretty easy

Answer 1

Starting Python 3.8, and the introduction of assignment expressions (PEP 572) (:= operator), we can alternatively explicitly capture a witness of an any expression or a counterexample of an all expression:

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To quote a couple examples from the PEP description:

if any(len(long_line := line) >= 100 for line in lines):
  print("Extremely long line:", long_line)

if all((nonblank := line).strip() == '' for line in lines):
  print("All lines are blank")
else:
  print("First non-blank line:", nonblank)