Functional Programming in Python: When and How to Use It
Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is evaluation of functions. In this tutorial, you’ll explore functional programming in Python.
Functional programming typically plays a fairly small role in Python code. But it’s good to be familiar with it. At a minimum, you’ll probably encounter it from time to time when reading code written by others. You may even find situations where it’s advantageous to use Python’s functional programming capabilities in your own code.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn:
- What the functional programming paradigm entails
- What it means to say that functions are first-class citizens in Python
- How to define anonymous functions with the
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