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[alex23]

Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> writes:
> > (Although I have to say, I have little sympathy for Steven's
> > hypothetical "new programmer who isn't familiar with map and reduce".
>
> With ‘reduce’ gone in Python 3 [0], I can only interpret that as “I have
> little sympathy for programmers who start with Python 3”. Is that in
> line with what you meant?

Yes, Ben, clearly I was being an asshole here, and my follow up
statement about the small number of built-ins and the ease of looking
up documentation had no bearing on it whatsoever.

When I write in-production code, I write code. I don't write for a
hypothetical first time coder who has no experience with the language.
I don't limit myself to patterns only used in the Python tutorial. If
that means a metaclass or functional style is the right approach, then
that's what I'll use.

If you want to extrapolate that into assumptions on my opinions of the
various Python versions, I obviously can't stop you.

> The process of deprecation (‘map’ and ‘reduce’ are nowadays better
> replaced with list comprehensions or generator expressions) surely
> entails deprecating learning the deprecated practice for new code.

map is still a built-in, it's hardly deprecated. You might want to do
something about that if you insist on everyone conforming to your
ideal style.