Boolean statements and conditional statements are commonly used in Python programming. Every element in an iterable is evaluated to determine its truth value.

What is the use of the built-in "any()" function in Python?

In simple words, Python's any() function returns True if any element of a given iterable (List, Dictionary, Tuple, Set, etc) is true, otherwise, it returns False.

Code

# A tuple
test_tuple = (1,False,2) 

# Use of any with tuple
print(any(test_tuple))

# A list
test_list = [0,False]

# Use of any with List
print(any(test_list))

Output

True
False

Note: When any true element is found by the Python any() function, it stops iterations

Explanation:

As shown in the first example, any() returns True because at least one element in the list is True and it is in the form of a tuple.

Due to the initial state of the list is either zero or false, any() returns False, however, the presence of a non-zero value will change the output to True.

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