Paddy wrote:
On looking up map on Wikipedia there is no mention of this special behaviour, So my question is why?
My question is why you are looking up the semantics of Python functions on Wikipedia instead of the Python documentation. I don't see any particular discussion of map() there at all. Am I missing something?
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