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

[Michael Hudson]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:

> In article <arsni0$pnk$1 at news.netpower.no>, David Brown wrote:
> 
> >> I never liked filter, map and reduce.
> 
> So don't use them. ;)

It's not quite that simple of course.  If you're unlucky enough, every
now and then you read code SOMEONE ELSE wrote!

They're all fine in simple cases, but some of the most tortous Python
code I've seen invloved artificially -- and probably fruitlessly --
stuffing code into calls to map in a quest for performance.  Shudder.

Cheers,
M.

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