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Python Functional Python The Lambda Lambada Currying

Posted by Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,638 Points

How does this relate to promises?

Kenneth Love ,

This seemed to be a hard lesson to apply to practical python, but a lot of the concepts seem to resemble something I've tried to understand in javascript: Promises and creating the idea of eventuality in programming. The lambda with local variables seems to look an awful lot like an unfulfilled promise passed to the next function in a chain in javascript. Is this the same pattern of programming, and do you know where I could find information on applying these skills to my javascript?

Nicolas

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

From what I understand (and, sorry for the late reply, been too busy lately to get to browse the forums much), currying and promises aren't related at all. A curried function is "complete" but can't actually be calculated. A promise, though, is complete and calculable, just hasn't been run yet.

Lambdas in Python are JavaScript's anonymous functions (i.e. all functions in JavaScript that aren't explicitly given a name).

Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,638 Points

Ah, ok. Thanks for getting back to me at all Kenneth, it's always appreciated.