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[David Robinow]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.1662.1276743037.32709.python-list at python.org>,
> James Mills  <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
...
>>What in particular do you _not_ enjoy about using map/reduce (and
>>possibly other functional features of the Python programing language) ?
>
> map() never felt particularly Pythonic, especially the way it works with
> None as the function combined with multiple arguments.  I can't explain
> why I loathe reduce() -- it just doesn't fit my brain.
 FWIW, I don't know what reduce() does. Every time I see it I have to
look it up.
I think I understand map() but probably wouldn't use it (Note: I
haven't actually written any code in a few years, being retired, or
unemployed, or something)