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

The primary reason of reduce's existence is to avoid writing explicit for loops with accumulators. Even though python has some facilities to support the functional style, it is not encouraged. If you like the 'real' and not 'pythonic' functional style - use a modern Lisp (Clojure?) or Haskel instead.