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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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The Itertools Module

Functional programming emphasizes stateless objects. In Python, this leads us to work with generator expressions, generator functions, and iterables, instead of large, mutable, collection objects. In this chapter, we'll look at elements of the itertools library. This library has numerous functions to help us work with iterable sequences of objects, as well as collection objects.

We introduced iterator functions in Chapter 3, Functions, Iterators, and Generators. In this chapter, we'll expand on that superficial introduction. We used some related functions in Chapter 5, Higher-Order Functions.

These functions behave as if they are proper, lazy, Python iterables. Some of them create intermediate objects, however; this leads ...
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