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Reduce () in Python 3

Authors: K. S. Ooi

Python, the most popular language at this moment, is the language of choice to write readable code. As coding instructors, it is our virtue to teach students to write code that is easy to read and understand. However, Python was older than Java. There are functional programming components that survive, and many students find them too cool to ignore. I address one such higher-order function, reduce(), in this article. Over-reduce() is the first issue I discuss. If we understand the problem well and do not shoehorn our problem into reduce(), there are alternatives readily available. In this article, I gives few examples that we should not reduce().

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