Almost everyone has heard of Google's MapReduce framework, but very few have ever hacked around with the idea of map and reduce. These two idioms are borrowed from functional programming, and form the basis of Google's framework. Although Python is not a functional programming language, it has built-in support for both of these concepts. A…
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