Functional Programming in Python

[Wesley J. Chun]

In article <v0422080ab5b4bec5cd6d@[209.252.32.160]>,
  Ted Goranson <tedg at sirius-beta.com> wrote:
>
> Is anyone doing any functional programming in Python? I understand
> there was quite a push to add lamdba capabilities some years back. I
> know the Norvig paper on Python and Lisp, but that's beside the point.

Python is not a "pure" functional programming language per se(see
Michael's and Neel's previous comments), but it does have a lambda
statement as well as apply(), map(), filter(), and reduce() functions
with which to do *some* pseudo functional programming-type tasks.

hope this adds a little more'ly y'rs,

-wesley
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