New submission from Christoph Zwerschke <c...@online.de>: In the section "Using the batteries" of the "Idioms and Anti-Idioms in Python" document (http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/doanddont.html#using-the-batteries), the reduce statement is used for summing up numbers as an example. I think this is rather an anti-example, because Python already has a sum function built-in, i.e. reduce(operator.add, nums)/len(nums) can be written much simpler as sum(nums)/len(nums).
---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 95762 nosy: cito, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: reduce() is an anti-example in "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7402> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
