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Any other .NET folks out there that have accidentally misused the any() builtin when doing something in Python? About 2-3 times (with gaps of a year or so) I have accidentally used Python's any(some_collection) ("is there any element of some_collection that is truthy") where in .NET I would use someCollection.Any() ("is someCollection non-empty").

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Wouldn't `Count` ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collectio... ) be the preferred way to check if a collection has values? `someCollection.Any()` is the same as Python's `any`

I didn't mean specifically ICollection, maybe I just used the wrong word (probably "enumerable" or "sequence" is better?). But I was referring to this method: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enum...

> Determines whether any element of a sequence exists or satisfies a condition.

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