Ant wrote: > On Nov 23, 10:54 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cybersource.com.au> wrote: > ... >> Alas and alack, I believe that Guido has a distaste for all but the >> simplest functional idioms, and an irrational belief that anything using >> reduce() must be too complex to bear. reduce() is going away, not just >> from the built-ins but (I believe) from the standard library as well.
I believe I've spotted an irrational belief in an irrational belief of the BDFL here ;) > I thought that at the last count it was merely being moved out into > functools (or somewhere similar). reduce() is indeed in the functools -- added by Guido van Rossum himself. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
