[Python-Dev] Product function patch [issue 1093] (original) (raw)

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Mon Sep 3 14:24:30 CEST 2007 

>> At one time Guido mentioned adding a built-in product() function to
>> cover some of the remaining use cases of the built-in reduce().

Martin> What is the use case for product()?

As I recall, there were basically two uses of reduce(), to sum a series or (less frequently) to take the product of a series. sum() obviously takes care of the first use case. product() would take care of the second.

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