map, index

[Luis Quesada]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Luis Quesada <l.quesada at 4c.ucc.ie> writes:
>>> [ id*v for id,v in enumerate(L) ]
>> Cool! Thanks!
> 
> If you really want to write that in pointfree style (untested):
> 
>    import itertools, operator
>    ...
>    itertools.starmap(operator.mul, enumerate(L))
> 
> For your other question, you could probably do something ugly
> with ifilter, but it's not worth it.  
> 
> For the style of programming you're interested in, you should read the
> docs for the itertools module.  Python culture in general tends to
> not be that fond of heavy use of HOF's, since it's very easy to make
> mistakes with its iterator protocol and with its dynamic type system.
Thanks a lot for the pointer.
Python is rather cool indeed.
Cheers,
Luis