[Python-Dev] functools.compose to chain functions together (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Aug 16 14:14:56 CEST 2009

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:39:03 am Jason R. Coombs wrote:

I'd like to express additional interest in python patch 1660179, discussed here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2007-February/021687.html [...] But to me, a compose function is much easier to read and much more consistent with the decorator usage syntax itself. def metadecorator(data): return compose(decregisterfunctionforx, decalterdocstring, decinjectsomedata(data))

Surely that's better written as:

meta_decorator = compose(dec_register_function_for_x, dec_alter_docstring, dec_inject_some_data)

I admit, I may be a bit biased; my first formal programming course was taught in Scheme.

Mine wasn't -- I've never even used Scheme, or Lisp, or any other functional language. But I've come to appreciate Python's functional tools, and would like to give a +0.5 to compose(). +1 if anyone can come up with additional use-cases.

-- Steven D'Aprano

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