Jason Grout wrote: > recursion is implemented, so you run into recursion depth problems, and > the support for functional idioms is only going to get "worse", if I > understand the future of Python correctly). On the bright side, list > comprehensions replace a lot of the need and do it very nicely. > > Python does have map and apply and filter, but it seems like their use > is frowned upon in general in favor of list comprehensions; correct me > if I'm wrong, though. >
map and filter will stay in Python 3.0, but apply is gone. See: http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---