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Steven Lott | The Five Kinds of Python Functions

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https://slott56.github.io/five-kinds-of-python-functions Update: Steven Lott | The Five Kinds of Python Functions

See this: https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/786920174595158018

The core expression is similar to this

y = (f(x) for x in L if f(x) is not None)

There are a lot of variations on the filter. The point is that the function appears twice in the above expression.

We …

Check out this idiocy: https://github.com/slott56/py-false

What is the point? Seriously. What. The. Actual. Heck?

I think of it this way.

• Languages are a cool thing. Especially programming languages where there's an absolute test -- the Turing machine -- for completeness.
• The Forth-like stack language is a cool thing …

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/which-programming-language-will-earn-you-the-highest-salary/ Okay. I like that. I wonder what the r² value is.

Here's the question, lightly edited to remove the garbage. (Sometimes I'm charitable and call it "rambling". Today, I'm not feeling charitable about the garbage writing style filled with strange assumptions instead of questions.)

someone asked if you could have both a yield and a return in the same ... function/iterator …

https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/automating-nosql-database-builds-a-python-to-the-rescue-story-that-never-gets-old-1d9adbcf6792#.8xp69yxqj

Someone found Yet Another Post (YAP™) insisting that the Gang of Four (GOF™) patterns were on their last legs. The email was misleading, because this is not precisely what the article said. The bottom-line was that Design Patterns in general are merely a response to gaps in the underlying programming …