[phyrex]

No, he's right. It got 'demoted' from a core function to a footnote in a module. See also https://blog.finxter.com/about-guidos-fate-of-reduce-in-pyth...

[__alexs]

No he's wrong. Python the language and Python the standard library are not separate things.

[cerved]

no I'm right

> So in my mind, the applicability of reduce() is pretty much limited to associative operators, and in all other cases it's better to write out the accumulation loop explicitly.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196