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Functions & basics easy

How to Pass a Function as a Callback to map and filter in Python

Shows how to apply custom functions to every element of a list using map and filter callbacks in Python.

map filter callbacks
Python
def double(x):
    return x * 2

def is_even(x):
    return x % 2 == 0

if __name__ == "__main__":
    numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    doubled = list(map(double, numbers))
    evens = list(filter(is_even, numbers))
    print("Original:", numbers)
    print("Doubled:", doubled)
    print("Evens:", evens)
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Functions & basics easy

How to Use functools.reduce in Python

Apply functools.reduce with operator functions and lambda expressions to aggregate lists into sums, products, maximums, and concatenated strings.

reduce functools lambda
Python
from functools import reduce
import operator

# Sum all numbers in a list using reduce
numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
sum_result = reduce(operator.add, numbers)

# Find the maximum value using reduce
max_result = reduce(lambda a, b: a if a > b else b, numbers)

# Multiply all numbers using reduce
product_result = reduce(la…
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Algorithms & data structures easy

How to Combine filter and map with a List Comprehension in Python

This Python code demonstrates how to combine filtering and mapping in a single list comprehension and shows the equivalent filter() and map() approach.

list-comprehension filter map
Python
def square(x):
    return x * x

def is_even(x):
    return x % 2 == 0

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

result = [square(x) for x in numbers if is_even(x)]

print(f"Original numbers: {numbers}")
print(f"Squares of even numbers: {result}")

# Combined filter + map equivalent
filtered = filter(is_even, numbers)
mapp…
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Comprehensions & generators easy

How to Use starmap() to Unpack Tuple Arguments in Python

Use itertools.starmap to apply a function to each tuple in an iterable, unpacking tuple elements as separate arguments and returning an iterator of results.

itertools starmap generators
Python
from itertools import starmap

def multiply(a, b):
    return a * b

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pairs = [(2, 3), (4, 5), (6, 7), (8, 9)]
    results = list(starmap(multiply, pairs))
    print(results)
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