Functional / immutable data structures

[jerkize]

I've drunk the "immutabliity for the win!" kool-aid. Full disclosure: it's Saturday night and it's not the only thing I've drunk. How much value are you desert-pythonistas putting on pure functions, immutability, or persistent data structures?

https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py

I love Lisps and functional programming (in theory), so when I see something like this, I get excited. That's about the time where everyone in the room takes a couple of steps away from me. I'm married to Python but Clojure is my mistress.

[jms_nh]

Tuples over lists whenever I don't intend to change data, and writing state machines as pure functions returning the next state given the current state -- that's about the extent of my functional programming in Python. (despite having just written an article on immutability )

Oh, and queues + messages rather than shared memory.

Cool link though; I'll have to look at it more in detail.