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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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Introducing Essential Functional Concepts

Most of the features of functional programming are already first-class parts of Python. Our goal in writing functional Python is to shift our focus away from imperative (procedural or object-oriented) techniques to as much of an extent as possible.

We'll look at each of the following functional programming topics:

  • First-class and higher-order functions, which are sometimes known as pure functions.
  • Immutable data.
  • Strict and non-strict evaluation. We can also call this eager versus lazy evaluation.
  • Recursion instead of an explicit loop state.
  • Functional type systems.

This should reiterate some concepts from the first chapter: firstly, that purely functional programming avoids the complexities of ...

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