On 3/19/06, Karl Pflästerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> reduce(lambda s, L: s + sum(L), foo, 0)
Ah ok - well that looks pretty cryptic to me, as I've never used either lambda or reduce(). However, this looks to be a 'functional' way of doing what I was doing procedurally, which is, I suppose, what I was asking. Would you mind helping to explain how the above works? Incidentally, I had a look at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-prog.html As an introduction to functional programming in Python - it looks interesting. I've never done any functional programming at all, so it all seems a little foreign! Can you recommend another gentle introduction? Or will this fry my brain, as I start trying to mix methodologies? Thanks! S. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
