Hi I find myself occasionally doing this:
... = dirname(dirname(dirname(p))) I'm always--literally every time-- looking for a more functional form, something that would be like this: # apply dirname() 3 times on its results, initializing with p ... = repapply(dirname, 3, p) There is a way to hack something like that with reduce, but it's not pretty--it involves creating a temporary list and a lambda function: ... = reduce(lambda x, y: dirname(x), [p] + [None] * 3) Just wondering, does anybody know how to do this nicely? Is there an easy form that allows me to do this? cheers, _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
