Function composition

[Emile van Sebille]

How about something like:

def compose(f, *args, **kwargs):
  return apply(f, args, kwargs)


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"Cees de Groot" <cg at gaia.cdg.acriter.nl> wrote in message
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> I was showing a Math PhD/Functional programming guy
Python, and of course he
> was interested in map, filter, etcetera. He talked about
function composition,
> and I did a quick:
>
> def compose(f, g): return lambda x: f(g(x))
>
> but that's of course only for single-argument functions.
My
> advanced-Python-hacking seems to be getting rusty (too
much Java coding, sorry
> for that), but is there an easy way to extend this to any
argument signature?
>
> TIA,
>
> Cees
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