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

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> >(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.


-1

This is neat, but I don't really see much use beyond implementing things
like  fold("+=", ..) that you've just rejected.
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