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Re:Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday April 10, 2016 @10:49AM (#11466334)
Why does it matter if reduce is no longer a keyword?
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Re:Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP by cosarara97 on Sunday April 10, 2016 @01:01PM (#11467036)
reduce was not a keyword, it was a builtin function. So:

    reduce = 0
is valid. But really it doesn't matter.
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Re:Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP by ciupicri on Sunday April 10, 2016 @12:47PM (#11466958)
Actually it wasn't a keyword, it was just something that was "imported" by default.
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