"Eduardo Vieira" <[email protected]> wrote
def build_match_and_apply_functions(pattern, search, replace):
def matches_rule(word):
return re.search(pattern, word)
def apply_rule(word):
return re.sub(search, replace, word)
return (matches_rule, apply_rule)
patterns = \
(
('[sxz]$', '$', 'es'),
('[^aeioudgkprt]h$', '$', 'es'),
('(qu|[^aeiou])y$', 'y$', 'ies'),
('$', '$', 's')
)
rules = [build_match_and_apply_functions(pattern, search, replace)
for (pattern, search, replace) in patterns]
def plural(noun):
for matches_rule, apply_rule in rules:
if matches_rule(noun):
return apply_rule(noun)
My question is "baby" assigned to "word" in the inner function? It's a
little mind bending for me...
Yes.
rules is a list comprehension that builds a list of 3 pairs of functions.
These functions are returned from the first function above.
Those functions both take a word as an argument.
in plural it iterates over these pairs of functions and applies noun
as the argument to both functtions, so noun gets applied as
the word parameter to both functions.
And yes it is a little mind bending and there are more straighforward
ways to code it, but they require more code and don't show off the
use of higher order functions. It depends on what the book is actually
trying to explain here whether this approach is sensible or not.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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