What is the problem with reduce()?

Question

There seems to be a lot of heated discussion on the net about the changes to the reduce() function in python 3.0 and how it should be removed. I am having a little difficult

Answer 1

reduce() is not being removed -- it's simply being moved into the functools module. Guido's reasoning is that except for trivial cases like summation, code written using reduce() is usually clearer when written as an accumulation loop.