[Python-ideas] Rehabilating reduce (as "fold")

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 12, 2013, at 04:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>I'd personally be in favour of the notion of also allowing strings as the
>first argument, so you could instead write:
>
>    data = fold("+=", [], iterables)

You had me until here...

>(Independent of this idea, it would actually be nice if the operator module
>had a dictionary mapping from op symbols to names, like
>operator.by_symbol["+="] giving operator.iadd)

...but this is a neat idea.

-Barry

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