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Functional Programming Modules¶

The modules described in this chapter provide functions and classes that support a functional programming style, and general operations on callables.

The following modules are documented in this chapter:

itertools — Functions creating iterators for efficient looping
- Itertool functions
- Itertools Recipes
functools — Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects
- partial Objects
operator — Standard operators as functions
- Mapping Operators to Functions
- In-place Operators

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