Gábor Farkas wrote: > why does map and filter stay, but reduce leaves? > > i understand that some people think that an explicit for-loop is more > understandable, but also many people claim that list-comprehensions are > more understandable than map/filter.., and map/filter can be trivially > written using list-comprehensions.. so why _reduce_?
Don't worry, it wasn't complete removed. Reduce was moved to functools $ ./python Python 3.0x (p3yk:56022, Jun 18 2007, 21:10:13) [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> map <built-in function map> >>> filter <built-in function filter> >>> from functools import reduce >>> reduce <built-in function reduce> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
