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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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Using an immutable namedtuple as a record

In Chapter 3, Functions, Iterators, and Generators, we showed two common techniques to work with tuples. We've also hinted at a third way to handle complex structures. We can do any of the following, depending on the circumstances:

  • Use lambdas (or functions) to select a named item using the index
  • Use lambdas (or functions) with *parameter to select an item by parameter name, which maps to an index
  • Use namedtuples to select an item by attribute name or index

Our trip data, introduced in Chapter 4, Working with Collections, has a rather complex structure. The data started as an ordinary time series of position reports. To compute the distances covered, we transposed the data into a sequence of legs with a start position, end position, and distance as a nested three-tuple.

Each item in the sequence of legs looks as follows as a three-tuple:

first_leg= ((37.54901619777347, -76.33029518659048), (37.840832, -76.273834), 17.7246)

This is a short trip between...

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