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Functional Python Programming

You're reading from   Functional Python Programming Create succinct and expressive implementations with functional programming in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396992
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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Preface 1. Introducing Functional Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing Some Functional Features 3. Functions, Iterators, and Generators 4. Working with Collections 5. Higher-order Functions 6. Recursions and Reductions 7. Additional Tuple Techniques 8. The Itertools Module 9. More Itertools Techniques 10. The Functools Module 11. Decorator Design Techniques 12. The Multiprocessing and Threading Modules 13. Conditional Expressions and the Operator Module 14. The PyMonad Library 15. A Functional Approach to Web Services 16. Optimizations and Improvements Index

Functional composition and currying

Some functional languages work by transforming a multiargument function syntax into a collection of single argument functions. This process is called currying—it's named after logician Haskell Curry, who developed the theory from earlier concepts.

Currying is a technique for transforming a multiargument function into higher order single argument functions. In the simple case, we have a function Functional composition and currying; given two arguments x and y, this will return some resulting value, z. We can curry this into two functions: Functional composition and currying and Functional composition and currying. Given the first argument value, x, the function returns a new one-argument function, Functional composition and currying returns a new one-argument function, Functional composition and currying. This second function can be given an argument, y, and will return the resulting value, z.

We can evaluate a curried function in Python as follows: f_c(2)(3). We apply the curried function to the first argument value of 2, creating a new function. Then, we apply that new function to the second argument value of 3...

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