April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
One of the ideas that emerged from the previous list of topics is that most functional programming is already present in Python. Indeed, most functional programming is already a very typical and common part of OOP.
As a very specific example, a fluent Application Program Interface (API) is a very clear example of functional programming. If we take time to create a class with return self() in each method function, we can use it as follows:
some_object.foo().bar().yet_more()
We can just as easily write several closely related functions that work as follows:
yet_more(bar(foo(some_object)))
We've switched the syntax from traditional object-oriented suffix notation to a more functional prefix notation. Python uses both notations ...