[Python-3000] what do I use in place of reduce?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Nicholas T <ntung at ntung.com> wrote:
>    It's obvious how to use LC's to replace map and filter, but what about
> reduce? It is one of my favorite functions.
>
> >>> time=1901248
> >>> reduce(lambda a, b: a[:-1] + [a[-1]%b, math.floor(a[-1]/b)], [[time],
> 60, 60, 24])
>  [28, 7.0, 0.0, 22.0] # secs, mins, hrs, days

I recommend learning how to use a good old for-loop. That example is
as cryptic as can be. It's also inefficient due to calling a function
for each iteration.

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