yet another noob question

[Stargaming]

Jason Nordwick wrote:
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> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
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>> Jason Nordwick:
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>>> Stargaming wrote:
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>>>> Also note that reduce will be removed in Python 3000.
>>>
>>> What will replace it?
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>>
>> Nothing, I presume. You will have to write a function to find another
>> way to solve problems.
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>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>>
> 

Well, *perhaps* there will be a new function product() -- and there we 
go having replaced every arithmetical use of reduce() because Guido 
cannot read them. Nice.

Read on: "The fate of reduce() in Python 3000" 
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 -- found on "PEP 
3100 -- Miscellaneous Python 3.0 Plans" 
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/#id63

Regards,
Stargaming
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