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

[Skip Montanaro]

    Grant> I see how you use list comprehensions to replace map and filter,
    Grant> but I don't understand why list comprehensions are touted as a
    Grant> replacement for reduce and lambda.  

In general, I don't think they are (though people make mistakes or aren't as
precise as they ought to be at times).  Map, filter, reduce and lambda get
lumped together in the "functional programming" pot.  List comprehensions
only replace map and filter.

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