Python Tutorial Was: Guido's regrets: filter and map

[Anton Vredegoor]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:19:46 -0800, Terry Hancock
<hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:

>map(), filter(), and reduce() do not represent all of the uses for filter,
>and thus, they can't all be replaced by list comps (BTW, I never used
>reduce, never understood what it was good for, and don't immediately
>see how it can be done using list-comps -- would be genuinely interested
>in seeing a couple of example if anyone's willing). 


from operator import mul

def fac(n):
    #faculty of n
    return reduce(mul,range(2,n+1),1L)

Regards,

	Anton.
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