On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:22:28 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Aside: You'll often hear people talking about "map-reduce" with big >> data. Python supports that. Look! >> >>>>> map.__reduce__ >> <method '__reduce__' of 'map' objects> >> >> Oh wait, that's nothing to do with reduce()... >> >> *ducks for cover* > > Ha ha, very funny :-P > > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577676-dirt-simple-mapreduce/
That looks like a more serious map/reduce example. Mine came from a double-take when I was looking at help(map) for some reason; there's a __round__ magic method that helps define the round() function, there's __abs__ for abs(), there's __str__ for str()... look, there's a __reduce__ - it must be to help define reduce()! :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
