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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition
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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition

by Steven F. Lott
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

In this chapter, we have seen two reductions that are higher-order functions: max() and min(). We also looked at the two central higher-order functions, map() and filter(). We also looked at sorted().

We also looked at how to use a higher-order function to also transform the structure of data. We can perform several common transformations, including wrapping, unwrapping, flattening, and structure sequences of different kinds.

We looked at three ways to define our own higher-order functions, which are as follows:

  • The def statement. Similar to a lambda form that we assign to a variable.
  • Defining a callable class as a kind of function that emits composite functions.
  • We can also use decorators to emit composite functions. We'll return ...
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