[Tutor] Higher-Order Function Examples

[Walter Prins]

2011/2/14 Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastaneda at gmail.com>

> Could we consider sorted as an high order function?
>
> sorted_list = sorted(list_strings, key = str.lower)
>
>
No because sorted() returns a list as a result.   A higher order function
produces another function as a result, or takes one or more functions as a
parameter.

Walter
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