I can't stand map/reduce/lambda... *instant readable makeover*def minicomp(f1, f2): def comped(*args, **kwargs): return f1(f2(*args, **kwargs)) return comped def compose(*funcs): total = funcs[0] for f in funcs[1:]: total = minicomp(total, f) return total On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Masklinn <masklinn@masklinn.net> wrote:
On 5 Sep 2009, at 15:47 , Gerald Britton wrote: Ah -- so not a real function then (yet)? Though something we could
borrow from Haskell, I suppose, even though:
compose(foo,bar) == lambda x: foo(bar(x))
no?
Yeah but you could leverage Python's *args to get a compositor of more than two functions e.g.
def compose(*funcs): return reduce(lambda f1, f2: lambda *args, **kwargs: f1(f2(*args, **kwargs)), funcs)
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