Jason Nordwick wrote: > I use reduce to also do indexing, hashing with upsert semantics of lists of > key-value pairs, transitioning through a state table, etc... > > Somebody else pointed out to me how odd it is of Python to be ditching reduce > when Guido van Rossum was hired by Google, and Google is literally built on > map and reduce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapreduce). >
That seems a bit literal. Just because they use a tool called MapReduce that doesn't imply that thay chose to implement it with the Python map() and reduce() functions. It's a distributed application, in case you hadn't noticed ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
