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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:56:19 -0700
Subject: Re: Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference
To: Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find that interesting. I also find it interesting that the common
> functional methods (all, any, map, filter) are basically built into
> Python core language. That is unusual for most imperative programming
> languages early-on.

all and any are actually quite recent additions.  Guido added them to
placate users of "reduce(lambda x, y: x and y, foo)" back when the
plan was to remove reduce in Python 3.

Cheers,
Ian