Is there a function that applies list of functions to a value?

[fp2161 at gmail.com]

On Friday, August 30, 2013 4:09:45 AM UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:50:39 -0700, fp2161 wrote:
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> > My way is so obvious that it may not be that interesting...
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> > 
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> > def func4(f1,f2,f3,f4):
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> >     def anon(x):
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> >         f1(f2(f3(f4(x))))
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> >     return anon

> I don't think "obvious" is quite the right description. Well, perhaps 
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> "obviously wrong" :-)
 
> You also need to define func1 (trivial), func2, func3, func5, func6, 
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> func7, func8, ..., func2147483647, plus another master function to choose 
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> between them, depending on the number of functions provided as argument.
> I assume that the maximum number of arguments given is 2**31-1. Python 
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> may not actually have that limitation, in which case you would need to 
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> define additional functions.
> Or... you would have to come up with an implementation which doesn't hard-
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> code the number of functions used.
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> Steven

I got the generalisation criticism before yours, and generalised it accordingly. Unfortunately it was wrong essentially because it was so obvious that Josh Englsih posted essentially the same one before me...