Revision as of 15:51, 25 February 2002 edit Conversion script (talk \| contribs) 10 edits m Automated conversion ← Previous edit		Revision as of 13:53, 5 July 2002 edit undo Fredb (talk \| contribs) 74 edits *Yes, there are some functional programming features in Python Next edit →
Line 1: I don't believe Python supports [[:Functional programming\|Functional programming]], as in [[:Prolog\|Prolog]] or somesuch. It supports function-based programming... meaning that your program is just composed of functions ~~nor~~not organized into classes and objects. I have gotten the two confused in the past, and I suspect that this is what happened here. Or does Python really support ~~fuctional~~functional programming? Is there some add-on package that allows this? I wasn't aware of one. -- [[talk:Ansible\|ansible]] Yes, Python really does have some built-in functional programming features such as "map()", "filter()", "reduce()" and a somewhat limited "lambda", although I've read that Guido van Rossum now regrets including these features in the language. As a more readable and "Pythonic" alternative, "list comprehensions" were more recently introduced into the language and can often be used instead of the older functional programming constructs.

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