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Re:Intermediate Pythonista: The Function by mhb on Sunday January 18, 2015 @03:21PM (#8908702)
These functions that take other functions as argument are commonly referred to as higher order functions and these form the basis for functional programming.

Wikipedia, for one, disagrees about what functional programming is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

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Re:Intermediate Pythonista: The Function by c4obi on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:23AM (#8911566)
Cheers for pointing out that.. Should have been 'are an important part of functional programming'
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