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#486 Functional Programming in Python

Book notes - Functional Programming in Python by David Mertz. An O’Reilly report published May 1, 2015.

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Functional Programming in Python is an O’Reilly report published in 2015.

Contents

  • (Avoiding) Flow Control
    • Encapsulation
    • Comprehensions
    • Recursion
    • Eliminating Loops
  • Callables
    • Named Functions and Lambdas
    • Closures and Callable Instances
    • Methods of Classes
    • Multiple Dispatch
  • Lazy Evaluation
    • The Iterator Protocol
    • Module: itertools
  • Higher-Order Functions
    • Utility Higher-Order Functions
    • The operator Module
    • The functools Module
    • Decorators

Functional Python Programming

For a full text, see for example Functional Python Programming, 3rd Edition, by Steven F. Lott.

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