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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

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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.
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Writing pure functions


A pure function has no side effects: there are no global changes to variables. If we avoid the global statement, we will almost meet this threshold. We also need to avoid changing the state mutable objects. We'll look at a number of ways of ensuring these two aspects of pure functions. A reference to a value in the Python global using a free variable is something we can rework into a proper parameter. In most cases, it's quite easy.

Here is an example where the usage of the global statement is explained:

    def some_function(a, b, t):
        return a+b*t+global_adjustment

We can refactor this function to make the global_adjustment variable into a proper parameter. We would need to change each reference to this function, which might have a large ripple effect through a complex application. A global reference will be visible as a free variable in the body of a function. There will be neither a parameter nor an assignment for this variable, making it reasonably clear...

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