[Python-checkins] r47048 - sandbox/trunk/Doc/functional.rst

[andrew.kuchling]

Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Tue Jun 20 20:23:43 2006
New Revision: 47048

Modified:
   sandbox/trunk/Doc/functional.rst
Log:
Tweak example

Modified: sandbox/trunk/Doc/functional.rst
==============================================================================
--- sandbox/trunk/Doc/functional.rst	(original)
+++ sandbox/trunk/Doc/functional.rst	Tue Jun 20 20:23:43 2006
@@ -830,10 +830,15 @@
 Personally I try to avoid lambdas, favoring short nested
 ``def`` statements like this::
 
-    def combine_freq (a, b):
-        return 0, a[1] + b[1]
+    def output_total_freq (items):
+	"""Takes a list of (element, frequency count) tuples
+	and returns the total number of occurrences.
+        """
 
-    print reduce(combine_freq, items)[1]
+	def combine (a, b):
+	    return 0, a[1] + b[1]
+
+	return reduce(combine_freq, items)[1]
 
 You might disagree that this style is better.