[Tutor] apply() vs. the extended call syntax

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2013 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] apply() vs. the extended call syntax
> 
>T im Johnson wrote:
> 
>>  Frequently I use a function dispatch approach like this:
>>  funcs = {"key1":func1,"key2":func2}
>> 
>>  ## and call one of those functions with a key value
>>  ## as follows
>>  funcs[key](some,fixed,number,of,arguments)
>> 
>>  Less frequently, I might want to dispatch functions with variable
>>  numbers of arguments.
>> 
>>  Follows is an illustrative (hopefully) REPL session
>>  ## define a couple of simple function
>>  def test_apply(one,two): print(str(one) + " " + str(two))
>>  def func_two(): print("I don't have an argument!")
>> 
>>  ## define references to one or more functions and argument lists
>>  ## of variable lengths
>> 
>>  func_D = 
> {"key1":(test_apply,("one","two")), 
> "key2":(func_two,())}
>> 
>>  ## give a key some value
>>  k = "key1"
>> 
>>  ## Use the deprecated apply() function first

Is there a reason why the apply function is deprecated/gone, but map() isn't? Aren't they both based on the lisp-style functional programming approach?