Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

1. The built-in function map applies a function to each element of an iterable. map is not useful mostly of time as Python has list comprehension, etc. map support iterating multiple iterables at the same time.

   map(f, sequence1, sequence2)
   

   which is equivalent to

   [f(x1, x2) for x1, x2 in zip(sequence1, sequence2)]
   

2. There are some useful functions in the modules functools and operator. Below is the functional programming way of summing all elements in an array.

   functools.reduce(operator.add, L)
   

References

http://briansimulator.org/

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brian/