From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".
  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    also python has built-ins for sum, min, max, and math.prod - which account for a lot of use cases of reduce in a more readable way.

    But if you’re really crunching numbers, it’s just better to go with something like numpy, pandas, polars, …