Replace reduce with listcomprehension?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

ssecorp schrieb:
> GvR wants to eliminate all the functional stuff (lambda map reduce
> filter) which kind of makes sense for Python, listcomprehensions are
> more efficient(at least as implemented inpython) from what i have
> gathered and they can express everything map/reduce/filter with
> crippled lambdas can.
> 
> but what about this:
> reduce(lambda x,y:x*y+x,[1,2,3,4,5,6])
> 
> how would I express that in a listcomprehension?

You can't. And AFAIK your are wrong - GvR doesn't wan to eliminate the 
functional stuff.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3099/



Diez