Comment on Draft Pep ver 4 -- Psuedo Deprecations of Builtins

[Andrae Muys]

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> wrote in message news:<aan5hv$aor$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>...
> I no longer think map(), filter(), and reduce() should even be
> psuedo-deprecated,
> but apply(), oct() and hex() are prime candidates.  The input() function
> should
> still be considered for genuine deprecation and deletion, but that reflects
> my
> view of input() as a bug.

Now while I certainly agree with input(), I'm curious what you expect
to use in place of apply()?  When mapping a function to a list of
argument tuples, */** notation now provides a clear, consise
alternative.

[apply(f,args) for args in arglist] 
-> [f(*args) for args in arglist]

Likewise when passing an argument tuple to a list of functions.

However the one case where I haven't been able to see a clean, consise
alternative to apply is matching a list of functions with a list of
argument tuples.  The closest I can get uses zip to create a temporary
list.

map(apply, functionlist, arglist) 
-> [f(*args) for f,args in zip(functionlist, arglist)]

Now please correct me if I'm wrong, but surely there is very little
room for improvement (re. readability, and clear expression of intent)
in the map() used above?

Andrae Muys