Functional programming offers a variety of techniques for creating succinct and expressive software. While Python is not a purely functional programming language, we can do a great deal of functional programming in Python.
Python has a core set of functional programming features. This lets us borrow many design patterns and techniques from other functional languages. These borrowed concepts can lead us to create succinct and elegant programs. Python's generator expressions, in particular, negate the need to create large in-memory data structures, leading to programs that may execute more quickly because they use fewer resources.
We can’t easily create purely functional programs in Python. Python lacks a number of features that would ...
