Functional Python Programming

Familiar territory

One of the ideas that emerge from the previous list of topics is that most functional programming is already present in Python. Indeed, most functional programming is already a very typical and common part of Object-Oriented Programming.

As a very specific example, a fluent Application Program Interface (API) is a very clear example of functional programming. If we take time to create a class with return self() in each method function, we can use it as follows:

some_object.foo().bar().yet_more()

We can just as easily write several closely-related functions that work as follows:

yet_more(bar(foo(some_object)))

We've switched the syntax from traditional object-oriented suffix notation to a more functional prefix notation. Python ...