How to apply a logical operator to all elements in a python list

Question

I have a list of booleans in python. I want to AND (or OR or NOT) them and get the result. The following code works but is not very pythonic.

def apply_and(alist         


        

Answer 1

ANDing and ORing is easy:

>>> some_list = [True] * 100
# OR
>>> any(some_list)
True
#AND
>>> all(some_list)
True
>>> some_list[0] = False
>>> any(some_list)
True
>>> all(some_list)
False

NOTing is also fairly easy:

>>> [not x for x in some_list]
[True, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False]

Of course, how you would use those results might require some interesting applications of DeMorgan's theorem.