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Functional Python Programming
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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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