The any() built-in function of python

Function signature:

any(iterable)

iterable - A Python iterator like list, deque, set and dictionary or any object implementing the Python iterator protocol.

Returns a Boolean value.

True when any of the elements from the iterabale is True. Returns False otherwise.

The Python built-in function any() checks whether a Python iterable object has at least one of its elements evaluating to True.
For example, a Python list object with only one element evaluating to True and all other elements as None will return True. If the iterable is empty the any() function will return False.
This behaviour is the opposite of all() function where all() will return True only if all the elements of an iterable evaluate to True.

# Example Python program that finds whether any of the
# elements of an iterable evaluates to True.

# Check a list which is sparsely populated with True values
iterSparse = [7, None, None, None, None, None]
print(any(iterSparse))

# Try an empty list
emptyList = []
print(any(emptyList))

# List without any values evaluating to True
listOfNone = [None, None, None, None, None, None]
print(any(listOfNone))

True

False