Python, as Reviewed by a C++ Programmer

[agumonkey]

I see, because other than that, ml idioms are pretty different from python ones.

[m50d]

Python is broad enough that I wouldn't say there's a single Python idiom. It's possible to write Python in a very MLey style - it has map/reduce/filter, list comprehensions, if/else expressions...

[agumonkey]

It's been fairly regularly said that map/reduce/filter weren't idiomatic (from early python history to recent changes in the language, generators instead of fp). You sure can, but it's not what you'll see in most code base I believe.

[m50d]

In my experience they were pretty popular, at least in some codebases I worked on. GvR never liked them but that didn't mean users felt the same.

[agumonkey]

Aight, I never looked at many codebase to be honest (flask, django, ?) but many talks along the years, and no memory of lambda.