Stop iteration when condition is meet while iterating

We are writing a small utility function called is_valid_mime_type. The function takes a mime_typeas an argument and checks if the mime type is one of the allowed types. Code looks like

ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE = ('application/json', 'text/plain', 'text/html')

def is_valid_mimetype(mime_type):
    """Returns True or False.

    :param mime_type string or unicode: HTTP header mime type
    """
    for item in ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE:
        if mime_type.startswith(item):
            return True
    return False

Above code can refactored into single line using any.

def is_valid_mimetype(mime_type):
    """Returns True or False.

    :param mime_type string or unicode: HTTP header mime type
    """
    return any([True for item in ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE
                              if mime_type.startswith(item)])

One liner. It is awesome, but not performant. How about using next ?

def is_valid_mimetype(mime_type):
    """Returns True or False.

    :param mime_type string or unicode: HTTP header mime type
    """
    return next((True for item in ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE 
                              if mime_type.startswith(item)), False)

(True for item in ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE if mime_type.startswith(item) is generator expression. When ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE is None or EMPTY exception will be raised. In order to avoid that False is passed as an argument to next.

Edit:

def is_valid_mimetype(mime_type):
    """Returns True or False.

    :param mime_type string or unicode: HTTP header mime type
    """
    return any(mime_type.startswith(item) for item in ALLOWED_MIME_TYPE)

Cleaner than Next.

python any next

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