[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I avoid map sometimes, because I find its syntax less readable
> than list (and expression) comprehensions. But occasionally it
> is the most readable way to do something, and I wouldn't want to lose
> it.
I tend to avoid map as much as possible. The only places I'm still
tempted to use map is in cases like:
' '.join(map(str, objects))
But I'm slowly moving towards:
' '.join(str(o) for o in objects)
because it's easier to fix when I realize later that I should have written:
' '.join('x%sy' % o for o in objects)
In general, I don't think I'll really miss any of map, filter, reduce,
etc. My background's a lot of Java and and a little bit of LISP and ML.
I was never a fan of LISP, but I did like ML a lot. However, for
Python, I definitely find list comprehensions and generator expressions
easier to read, especially when I have to read back through code I wrote
a long time ago.
STeVe
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