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Functional Python Programming

Functional Python Programming

By : Steven F. Lott
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Functional Python Programming

Functional Python Programming

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By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

This book is for developers who want to use Python to write programs that lean heavily on functional programming design patterns. You should be comfortable with Python programming, but no knowledge of functional programming paradigms is needed.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Introducing Functional Programming
1. Introducing Functional Programming
Identifying a paradigm
Subdividing the procedural paradigm
A classic example of functional programming
Exploratory Data Analysis
Summary
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2. Introducing Some Functional Features
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2. Introducing Some Functional Features
First-class functions
Immutable data
Strict and non-strict evaluation
Recursion instead of a explicit loop state
Functional type systems
Familiar territory
Saving some advanced concepts
Summary
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3. Functions, Iterators, and Generators
3. Functions, Iterators, and Generators
Writing pure functions
Functions as first-class objects
Using strings
Using tuples and namedtuples
Cleaning raw data with generator functions
Using lists, dicts, and sets
Summary
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4. Working with Collections
4. Working with Collections
An overview of function varieties
Working with iterables
Using zip() to structure and flatten sequences
Using reversed() to change the order
Using enumerate() to include a sequence number
Summary
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5. Higher-order Functions
5. Higher-order Functions
Using max() and min() to find extrema
Using Python lambda forms
Lambdas and the lambda calculus
Using the map() function to apply a function to a collection
Using map() with multiple sequences
Using the filter() function to pass or reject data
Using filter() to identify outliers
The iter() function with a sentinel value
Using sorted() to put data in order
Writing higher-order functions
Writing higher-order mappings and filters
Writing generator functions
Building higher-order functions with Callables
Looking at some of the design patterns
Summary
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6. Recursions and Reductions
6. Recursions and Reductions
Simple numerical recursions
Group-by reductions – from many to fewer
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7. Additional Tuple Techniques
7. Additional Tuple Techniques
Using an immutable namedtuple as a record
Building namedtuples with functional constructors
Avoiding stateful classes by using families of tuples
Polymorphism and Pythonic pattern matching
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8. The Itertools Module
8. The Itertools Module
Working with the infinite iterators
Using the finite iterators
Cloning iterators with tee()
The itertools recipes
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9. More Itertools Techniques
9. More Itertools Techniques
Enumerating the Cartesian product
Reducing a product
Permuting a collection of values
Generating all combinations
Recipes
Summary
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10. The Functools Module
10. The Functools Module
Function tools
Memoizing previous results with lru_cache
Defining classes with total ordering
Applying partial arguments with partial()
Reducing sets of data with reduce()
Summary
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11. Decorator Design Techniques
11. Decorator Design Techniques
Decorators as higher-order functions
Cross-cutting concerns
Composite design
Adding a parameter to a decorator
Implementing more complex descriptors
Recognizing design limitations
Summary
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12. The Multiprocessing and Threading Modules
12. The Multiprocessing and Threading Modules
What concurrency really means
The boundary conditions
Sharing resources with process or threads
Where benefits will accrue
Using multiprocessing pools and tasks
Using a multiprocessing pool for concurrent processing
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13. Conditional Expressions and the Operator Module
13. Conditional Expressions and the Operator Module
Evaluating conditional expressions
Using the operator module instead of lambdas
Starmapping with operators
Reducing with operators
Summary
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14. The PyMonad Library
14. The PyMonad Library
Downloading and installing
Functional composition and currying
Functional composition and the PyMonad multiplication operator
Functors and applicative functors
Monad concepts, the bind() function and the Binary Right Shift operator
Implementing simulation with monads
Additional PyMonad features
Summary
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15. A Functional Approach to Web Services
15. A Functional Approach to Web Services
The HTTP request-response model
The WSGI standard
Defining web services as functions
Tracking usage
Summary
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16. Optimizations and Improvements
16. Optimizations and Improvements
Memoization and caching
Specializing memoization
Optimizing storage
Optimizing accuracy
Case study – making a chi-squared decision
Computing expected values and displaying a contingency table
Summary
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Index
Index

Immutable data

Since we're not using variables to track the state of a computation, our focus needs to stay on immutable objects. We can make extensive use of tuples and namedtuples to provide more complex data structures that are immutable.

The idea of immutable objects is not foreign to Python. There can be a performance advantage to using immutable tuples instead of more complex mutable objects. In some cases, the benefits come from rethinking the algorithm to avoid the costs of object mutation.

We will avoid class definitions (almost) entirely. It can seem like it's anathema to avoid objects in an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language. Functional programming simply doesn't need stateful objects. We'll see this throughout this book. There are reasons for defining callable objects; it is a tidy way to provide namespace for closely-related functions, and it supports a pleasant level of configurability.

We'll look at a common design pattern that works well with immutable objects: the...

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