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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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Function tools

We looked at a number of higher-order functions in Chapter 5, Higher-Order Functions. Those functions either accepted a function as an argument or returned a function (or generator expression) as a result. All those higher-order functions had an essential algorithm that was customized by injecting another function. Functions such as max(), min(), and sorted() accepted a key= function that customized their behavior. Functions such as map() and filter() accept a function and an iterable and apply this function to the arguments. In the case of the map() function, the results of the function are simply yielded. In the case of the filter() function, the Boolean result of the function is used to pass or reject values from an iterable ...

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