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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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Higher-Order Functions

A very important feature of the functional programming paradigm is higher-order functions. These are functions that accept functions as arguments or return functions as results. Python offers several kinds of higher-order functions. We'll look at them and some logical extensions.

As we can see, there are three varieties of higher-order functions as follows:

  • Functions that accept functions as one (or more) of their arguments
  • Functions that return a function
  • Functions that accept a function and return a function, a combination of the preceding two features

Python offers several higher-order functions of the first variety. We'll look at these built-in higher-order functions in this chapter. We'll look at a few of the ...

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