is list comprehension necessary?

[Chris Rebert]

On 10/26/10, Mikael B <mback1 at live.se> wrote:
>>     That's from the functional programming crowd.
>>
>>     Python isn't a functional language.
>
> A noob question: what is a functional language?  What does it meen?

A language which supports the functional programming paradigm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

Google+Wikipedia are your friends as always.

Cheers,
Chris