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Python library for functional programming

Shown by allenleein on Dec 14, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

129points

95comments

#325of 2,242 in 2017

Top 15%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

5 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 12 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.

Idea: 1 for, 10 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against

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Extensive documentation
From 1 comment
- > Prepare for 1.0 next release So this will soon be a stable API? Great work. The documentation is extensive. I am personally a big fan of toolz[0], which is clojure inspired.…
  merlincorey on HN
Interesting Scala-inspired method chaining approach
From 1 comment
- > Prepare for 1.0 next release So this will soon be a stable API? Great work. The documentation is extensive. I am personally a big fan of toolz[0], which is clojure inspired.…
  merlincorey on HN

Method chaining is inside-out and does not read like function composition
From 1 comment
- I'm no expert in functional programming, but this feels a bit inside-out and backwards to me. It's writing f(g(h(x))) as x.h().g().f(), which doesn't read like function…
  sevensor on HN
Python syntax is not well suited to functional programming
From 1 comment
- Am I the only one who thinks Python's syntax is not really suited for functional programming? Creating an ad-hoc closure that spans multiple lines, for example, seems awkward.…
  amelius on HN

Support for chaining iterators
From 1 comment
- Python should somewhat provide a way of chaining these iterators. Coming from Ruby background, I really miss the ability to chain iterators. And the backslashes shouldn't be…
  rajaravivarma_r on HN
Clarify pandas integration documentation
From 1 comment
- Definitely approve of the name EntilZha for your GitHub user name. I was interested to see that coexisting with Pandas is supported, but the documentation seems either scant or…
  cwyers on HN

How does parallelization work with lazy generators?
From 1 comment
- How does its parallelization feature work with lazy generators? Or does its seq function not return generators?
  kccqzy on HN
Why use this over Coconut?
From 1 comment
- Is there a reason to use this over Coconut? http://coconut-lang.org/
  jjuel on HN

toolz
From 2 comments
- > Prepare for 1.0 next release So this will soon be a stable API? Great work. The documentation is extensive. I am personally a big fan of toolz[0], which is clojure inspired.…
  merlincorey on HN
- Shameless plug: https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python (a list of documents and projects related to FP in Python, including, already, the OP's project). I'm…
  fermigier on HN
pipetools
From 1 comment
- I'm not into functional programming in Python, but pipetools[0] looks way more handy. [0] https://github.com/0101/pipetools
  yedpodtrzitko on HN
fn.py
From 1 comment
- > Prepare for 1.0 next release So this will soon be a stable API? Great work. The documentation is extensive. I am personally a big fan of toolz[0], which is clojure inspired.…
  merlincorey on HN
Coconut
From 1 comment
- Is there a reason to use this over Coconut? http://coconut-lang.org/
  jjuel on HN
RxPy
From 1 comment
- This is quite cool, though it seems similar to RxPy (https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY)
  flor1s on HN