I showed some use functional tools with python language in the Devfest XP Recife.

1. Applying functional with Python
Is it possible?

2. About me
● Position: Data Engineer at 99
● Production experience: Python, Java, Scala, Go and NodeJS
● Looking at: Erlang and Elixir
● twitter.com/@jesuejunior
● github.com/jesuejunior

3. Agenda
● OOP vs FP (2min)
● About Functional (3min)
● Imperative vs Functional (8min)
● Functions(2min)
● High-Order Functions(10min)
● Lazy Evaluation(8min)
● What did we miss?(4min)
● Next steps?(1min)

4. OOP vs FP
Psychology

5. Object-Oriented Programming (Imperative style)
● Often matches with human style of thinking
● Humans automatically parse the world into objects
● Any well-defined something that has a set of properties
● Just like you mentally divide the world into objects

6. Object-Oriented Programming

7. Functional Programming
● Does not (necessarily) divide code into objects
● And can lead to unintuitive code
● In cases where this doesn't match our Intuition

8. Functional Programming

9. Functional Programming

10. About Functional

11. About Functional
● Avoid state
● Immutable data
● First-class functions
● Higher-order functions
● Pure functions
● Recursion, tail recursion
● Iterators, sequences, lazy evaluation, pattern matching, monads....

12. Imperative mode
vs
Functional Mode

13. Imperative Mode
expr, res = "28+32+++32++39", 0
for t in expr.split("+"):
if t != "":
res += int(t)
print(res)

14. Imperative Mode
"28+32+++32++39", 0
"28", 0
"32", 28
"", 60
"", 60
"32", 60
"", 92
"39", 92
131

15. Functional Mode
from operator import add
expr = "28+32+++32++39"
res = reduce(add, map(int, filter(bool, expr.split("+")))
print(res)

16. Functional Mode
"28+32+++32++39"
["28","32","","","32","","39"]
["28","32","32","39"]
[28,32,32,39]
131

17. MAP/REDUCE/FILTER
● Readability VS. conciseness
● Technical aspects VS. operation substance
● Code reusage ("pluggability")

18. Python Hints

19. Python Hints - operator
In [3]: import operator
#Equivalent to 5 + 3
In [4]: operator.add(5, 3)
Out[4]: 8
#Equivalent to 2 < 5
In [5]: operator.lt(2,5)
Out[5]: True
#Equivalent to [1,2,3][1]
In [6]: operator.itemgetter(1)([1,2,3])
Out[6]: 2
#Equivalent to 3 ** 3
In [7]: operator.pow(2,3)
Out[7]: 8

20. Can we avoid loops?
In [17]: name = None
In [18]: while name is None:
...: name = input()
...: if len(name) < 2:
...: name = None
...:
In [25]: def get_name():
...: name = input()
...: return name if len(name) >= 2 else get_Name()
...:
Recursion
Imperative

21. Tail Recursion
Elixir Python
So sorry...
defmodule Fib do
def fib(0) do 0 end
def fib(1) do 1 end
def fib(n) do
fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
end
end
IO.puts Fib.fib(10)

22. Functions

23. First Class
def add(a,b):
return a + b
add = lambda a,b: a + b
def calculations(a, b):
def add():
return a + b
return a, b, add

24. High-Order Function

25. Function as argument
map(lambda x: x^2, [1,2,3,4,5])

26. Function return function as result
def fill(topic):
print("My baloon is " + topic)
def timer(fn):
def inner(*args, **kwargs):
t = time()
fn(*args, **kwargs)
print("took {time}".format(time=time()-t))
return inner
filler = timer(fill)
filler("FP with Python")

27. I've already saw this...
@timer
def fill(topic):
print("My baloon is " + topic)
fill("FP with Python")

28. Partial Function Application
“ The process of fixing a number of
arguments to a function, producing
another function of smaller arity ”

29. Partial Function Application
import functools
def funcs(a, b, c):
return a + b + c
fp = functools.partial(funcs, c=3)
print(fp(1,2))

30. Currying
“ The technique of transforming a function
that takes multiple arguments in such a
way that it can be called as a chain of
functions each with a single argument ”

31. Currying

32. Currying
def compose(*funcs):
"""
Return a new function s.t.
compose(f,g,...)(x) == f(g(...(x)))
"""
def inner(data, funcs=funcs):
result = data
for f in reversed(funcs):
result = f(result)
return result
return inner
# >>> times2 = lambda x: x*2
# >>> minus3 = lambda x: x-3
# >>> mod6 = lambda x: x%6
# >>> f = compose(mod6, times2, minus3)
# >>> all(f(i)==((i-3)*2)%6 for i in range(1000000))
# True

33. Currying ( Standard Library)
In [32]: from operator import itemgetter
In [33]: itemgetter(3)([1,2,3,4,5])
Out[33]: 4
In [34]: from operator import attrgetter as attr
In [35]: class Balloon:
...: def __init__(self, name):
...: self.name = "[name] " + name
...:
In [36]: azul = Balloon('Azul')
In [37]: attr('name')(azul)
Out[37]: '[name] Azul'

34. Lazy Evaluation

35. List Comprehension
In [43]: res = [x**2 for x in range(10)]
...: print(res)
[0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]

36. List Comprehension (TIME)
python -m cProfile -s cumtime not_lazy_ex.py
3 function calls in 13.734 seconds
Ordered by: cumulative time
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 11.936 11.936 13.734 13.734 partial_ex.py:33(<module>)
1 1.798 1.798 1.798 1.798 {range}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of
'_lsprof.Profiler' objects}

37. List Comprehension (GENEXP)
In [44]: res = (x**2 for x in range(10))
...: print(res)
<generator object <genexpr> at 0x10fd98e60>
In [45]: for i in res: print(i, end=" ")
0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81

38. List Comprehension (GENEXP)
python -m cProfile -s cumtime lazy_ex.py
3 function calls in 1.812 seconds
Ordered by: cumulative time
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 0.000 0.000 1.812 1.812 partial_ex.py:30(<module>)
1 1.812 1.812 1.812 1.812 {range}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of
'_lsprof.Profiler' objects}

39. Iterable
from collections.abc import Iterable
class Fibonacci(Iterable):
def __init__(self):
self.a, self.b = 0, 1
self.total = 0
def __iter__(self):
return self
def __next__(self):
self.a, self.b = self.b, self.a + self.b
self.total += self.a
return self.a
def running_sum(self):
return self.total

40. Iterable
>>> fib = Fibonacci()
>>> fib.running_sum()
0
>>> for _, i in zip(range(10), fib):
... print(i, end=" ")
...
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55
>>> fib.running_sum()
143
>>> next(fib)
89

41. Python & FP

42. Python & FP
PRO
● Functions as first-­class citizens
● Lambda
● Standard library: map/filter/reduce, itertools, operator,
functools
● Generators can be used for lazy­ evaluation (in some
cases)

43. Python & FP
CON
● Impossible to separate pure / non­ pure
● Mutable variables
● Costly mem copy operations
● Imperative style for cycles
● No optimization for tail recursion

44. What did we miss?

45. What did we miss?
ALMOST EVERYTHING
● Errors handling without exceptions
● Pattern matching
● Message passing
● Functional data structures
● Custom data types
● Immutable and mutable

46. What is the next?
● multipledispatch - A relatively sane approach to multiple dispatch in Python.
○ https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch
● pyrsistent - Contains a number of immutable collections.
○ https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent
● toolz - Provides a set of utility functions for iterators, functions and dictionaries.
○ https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz
● hypothesis - Is a library for creating unit tests for finding edge cases in your code you wouldn't have thought to look for.
○ https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis-python
● more_itertools - Tries to collect useful compositions of iterators that neither itertools nor the recipes included in its docs address.
○ https://github.com/erikrose/more-itertools

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