Chapter 1, Understanding Functional Programming, introduces some of the techniques that characterize functional programming. We’ll identify some of the ways to map those features to Python. Finally, we’ll also address some ways that the benefits of functional programming accrue when we use these design patterns to build Python applications.
Chapter 2, Introducing Essential Functional Concepts, delves into six central features of the functional programming paradigm. We’ll look at each in some detail to see how they’re implemented in Python. We’ll also point out some features of functional languages that don’t apply well to Python. In particular, many functional languages have complex type-matching rules required to support ...
