Favorite non-python language trick?

[Konstantin Veretennicov]

On 6/25/05, Steven D'Aprano <steve at removethiscyber.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:41:58 +0200, Konstantin Veretennicov wrote:
> 
> > On 6/25/05, Mandus <mandus at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It is really a consensus on this; that
> >> removing map, filter, reduce is a good thing? It will render a whole lot
> >> of my software unusable :(
> >
> > I think you'll be able to use "from __past__ import map, filter,
> > reduce" or something like that :) They don't have to be built-in.
> 
> More likely they will be moved to something like itertools than "__past__".
> 
> Or just define them yourself:
> 
> def map(f, seq):
>         return [f(x) for x in seq]
> 
> def filter(p, seq):
>     return [x for x in seq if p(x)]
> 
> def reduce(f, seq, zero):
>     r = zero
>     for x in seq: r = f(r, x)
>     return r

FWIW, these don't exactly reproduce behaviour of current built-ins.
Filter, for instance, doesn't always return lists and map accepts more
than one seq... Just my $.02.

- kv