Tonight I gave a quick talk on using python from a functional perspective. Python's standard library comes with itertools which allows a bunch of functional (map, filter) operations on iterable objects in python. I oriented the talk towards edutainment, i.e. an entertaining light introduction to the ideas (generate, map, filter, reduce) that we see a lot, and how to use itertools to handle them nicely given python's support of iterators.

We held the meeting at the SaturdayHouse which looks promising....