On Tue, 11 May 2010 00:24:22 +1200, Samuel Williams wrote: > Is Python a functional programming language?
Not in any meaningful sense of the term. > Is this a paradigm that is well supported by both the language syntax and > the general programming APIs? No. > I heard that lambdas were limited to a single expression, Yes. In a functional language that wouldn't be a problem, as there's no limit to the complexity of an expression. Python's expressions are far more limited, which restricts what can be done with a lambda. > and that other > functional features were slated for removal in Python 3... is this the > case or have I been misinformed? I don't know about this. > Finally, even if Python supports functional features, is this a model that > is used often in client/application code? Not really. List comprehensions are probably the most common example of functional idioms, but again they're limited by Python's rather limited concept of an expression. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
