Replace reduce with listcomprehension?

[Luis M. González]

Actually, GvR announced that "lambda, filter and map will stay (the
latter two with small changes, returning iterators instead of lists).
Only reduce will be removed from the 3.0 standard library. You can
import it from functools."

Check the full article here: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196

Luis


On Aug 25, 7:08 pm, ssecorp <circularf... at gmail.com> wrote:
> GvR wants to eliminate all the functional stuff (lambda map reduce
> filter) which kind of makes sense for Python, listcomprehensions are
> more efficient(at least as implemented inpython) from what i have
> gathered and they can express everything map/reduce/filter with
> crippled lambdas can.
>
> but what about this:
> reduce(lambda x,y:x*y+x,[1,2,3,4,5,6])
>
> how would I express that in a listcomprehension?