[portland] Functional Programming Resources

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 06:02:21 CEST 2011


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>  I'd like to learn more about functional programming in Python than is
> covered in Mark Lutz's "Learning Python." Please suggest web pages, pdf
> docs, or books I should read.

Hi Rich!

This may be slightly tangential to a functional Python overview, but I
just had to share this slide deck on generators. I've enjoyed using
the described "generators as pipeline" approach for my own log parsing
duties:

http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/

Love, love the practical (read: non-Fibonacci) examples.

-- 
Dan Young


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