Preface
Programming languages sometimes fit neatly into tidy categories like imperative and functional. Imperative languages might further subdivide into those that are procedural and those that include features for object-oriented programming. The Python language, however, contains aspects of all of these three language categories. Though Python is not a purely functional programming language, we can do a great deal of functional programming in Python.
Most importantly, we can leverage many design patterns and techniques from other functional languages and apply them to Python programming. These borrowed concepts can lead us to create succinct and elegant programs. Python's generator expressions, in particular, avoid the need to create large in-memory ...
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