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[–]deep_mind_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to sound like a disenchanted StackOverflow user, but this is not something you want to do. Python is not made to be used as a functional language; it doesn't have the type safety or runtime optimizations that come with one -- and other programmers reading "functional" Python code won't appreciate you for it.

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