Remco Gerlich scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl
Thu Apr 13 13:32:40 EDT 2000

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Robert Cragie wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > Howcome you use reduce at all?
> >
> > Works fine with just doing
> >
> > tuplist = map(lambda x: (mylist[x], mylist[x+1]), range(0, len(mylist),
> 2))
> 
> Yep, that's neater. My excuse is that I've only been learning Python for a
> couple of weeks...

In that case, forget you ever read something about map, lambda and reduce.
Save it for later and code nice for loops now. 95% of the time, those things
only obfuscate code anyway.

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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl

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