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Re:The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005) by nszceta on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @02:33PM (#18801790)
itemgetter and attrgetter are compiled C functions called by cpython https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/_opera...
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Re:The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005) by masklinn on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @02:43PM (#18801838)
They mean faster to write, not that it's necessarily faster to execute (though the difference is likely immaterial).
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