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

Reduce can do this:

reduce(lambda a,b: a and b, alist, True)

As fortran mentioned, all is the most succinct way to do it. But reduce answers the more general question "How to apply a logical operator to all elements in a python list?"