To Reduce or Not To Reduce

[Tim Peters]

[Gerrit Holl]
> I thought I finally understood reduce, but apparantly, I don't.
> ...
> What am I missing? When should I use reduce?

We went thru this on the Edu-SIG not long ago:  never.  I wasn't joking.
reduce is virtually useless in Python, almost always both slower and more
obscure than the obvious alternatives.  You're not going to stumble into the
cases where it's faster without becoming an expert in the internals of the
implementation, but I won't spoil the fun of discovery for you <wink>.

even-metaclasses-may-be-more-useful<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim