Is there a Python equivalent of Ruby's 'any?' function?

In Ruby, you can call Enumerable#any? on a enumerable object to see if any of its elements satisfies the predicate you pass in the block. Like so: ``` lst.any?{|e| pred(e) } ``` In Python, there's an `any` function that does something similar, but on a list of booleans. Of course, for a reasonably-sized list, I'd just do: ``` any(map(pred,lst)) ``` However, if my list is very long, I don't want to have to do the entire `map` operation first. So, the question: Is there a generic short-circuiting `any` function in Python? Yes, I know it's really trivial to write one myself, but I'd like to use speedy builtin functions (and also not reinvent any wheels).