One liners

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:20:07 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano <
> steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

>> The beauty of Python is that it is a multi-paradigm language. You can
>> write imperative, procedural, functional, OOP, or pipelining style (and
>> probably more). The bad thing about Python is that if you're reading
>> other people's code you *need* to be familiar with all those styles.
>>
>>
> That's fine.  That's appropriate.   But I imagine any of these can be
> done with the intention of being more clever than clear.
> 
> BTW, what's pipelining style?  Like bash?

Yes, correct. You have a data stream and you pass it through various 
filters to process it.

David Beazley has some nice examples of writing pipelining code:

http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/index.html



-- 
Steven