Useful code which uses reduce()? [closed]

Answer 1

I have objects representing some kind of overlapping intervals (genomic exons), and redefined their intersection using __and__:

class Exon:
    def __init__(self):
        ...
    def __and__(self,other):
        ...
        length = self.length + other.length  # (e.g.)
        return self.__class__(...length,...)

Then when I have a collection of them (for instance, in the same gene), I use

intersection = reduce(lambda x,y: x&y, exons)