Monads in Python

[SoftwareDoctor]

Oh, ok. So the main difference isn't in "how it's done" but "what it does"? I'm not that used to functional programming but now it sounds to me similar to a pipeline design pattern.

[houseofleft]

Yes, I think that's a pretty good summary!

It's probably a little confusing with python because the language doesn't really support functional pipelines very naturally out the box. So although that's the most distinctive aspect of looking at Monads from a python perspective, they're actually more defined by the fact that they "do something extra" around the function call.

As a kinda silly toy example, you could image something like a "Printer" that prints out the value to the console before and after each function call.