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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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Reducing a product


In relational database theory, a join between tables can be thought of as a filtered product. A SQL SELECT statement that joins tables without a WHERE clause will produce a Cartesian product of rows in the tables. This can be thought of as the worst-case algorithm: a product without any filtering to pick the proper results.

We can use the join() function to join two tables, as shown in the following commands:

def join(t1, t2, where):):
    return filter(where, product(t1, t2)))))

All combinations of the two iterables, t1 and t2, are computed. The filter() function will apply the given where function to pass or reject items that didn't fit the given condition to match appropriate rows from each iterable. This will work when the where function returns a simple Boolean.

In some cases, we don't have a simple Boolean matching function. Instead, we're forced to search for a minimum or maximum of some distance between items.

Assume that we have a table of Color objects as follows...

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