python替代技术_Python替代reduce（）

There is a semi-famous article written by Guido himself hinting that reduce() should go the way of the dodo and leave the language. It was even demoted from being a top-level function in Python 3 (instead getting stuffed in the functools module).

With many other functional programming staples (map, etc) common clear alternatives are available. For example, most of the time a map() is better written as a list comprehension.

What I'd like to know is if there is a similar "more pythonic" alternative to the reduce function. I have a bit of a functional programming background (ML in particular), so reduce() often springs to my mind when thinking of a solution, but if there's a better way to do them (short of unrolling a reduce call into a for loop) I'd like to know.

解决方案

As Guido's linked article says, you should just write an explicit for loop if you want to avoid reduce(). You can replace the line

result = reduce(function, iterable, start)

by

result = start

for x in iterable:

result = function(result, x)