alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> writes: > (Although I have to say, I have little sympathy for Steven's > hypothetical "new programmer who isn't familiar with map and reduce".
With ‘reduce’ gone in Python 3 [0], I can only interpret that as “I have little sympathy for programmers who start with Python 3”. Is that in line with what you meant? > Python isn't PHP, its built-ins are nowhere near as exhaustive, > something like 80ish vs 2000+ functions? Not exactly a huge lookup > burden.) The process of deprecation (‘map’ and ‘reduce’ are nowadays better replaced with list comprehensions or generator expressions) surely entails deprecating learning the deprecated practice for new code. [0] <URL:http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/functions.html> -- \ “The fact of your own existence is the most astonishing fact | `\ you'll ever have to confront. Don't dare ever see your life as | _o__) boring, monotonous or joyless.” —Richard Dawkins, 2010-03-10 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
