Python几乎是一种函数式语言。它是“功能精简版”。

它有额外的特性，所以对某些人来说不够纯。

它还缺乏一些功能，因此对某些人来说还不够完整。

缺少的特性相对容易编写。查看类似这样的关于Python中的FP的帖子。

您引用的问题是哪些语言同时促进面向对象和函数式编程。Python并不提倡函数式编程，尽管它工作得相当好。

反对Python中函数式编程的最佳论据是Guido仔细考虑了命令式/OO用例，而函数式编程用例则没有。当我编写命令式Python时，它是我所知道的最漂亮的语言之一。当我编写函数式Python时，它变得像没有BDFL的普通语言一样丑陋和令人不快。

这并不是说它不好，只是说您必须比转换到促进函数式编程的语言或转换到编写OO Python时更加努力。

以下是我在Python中遗漏的函数性内容:

模式匹配 尾递归 大型列表函数库 函数式字典类 自动加脂法 简洁的组合函数的方法 懒惰的列表 简单、强大的表达式语法(Python的简单块语法阻止Guido添加它)

No pattern matching and no tail recursion mean your basic algorithms have to be written imperatively. Recursion is ugly and slow in Python. A small list library and no functional dictionaries mean that you have to write a lot of stuff yourself. No syntax for currying or composition means that point-free style is about as full of punctuation as explicitly passing arguments. Iterators instead of lazy lists means that you have to know whether you want efficiency or persistence, and to scatter calls to list around if you want persistence. (Iterators are use-once) Python's simple imperative syntax, along with its simple LL1 parser, mean that a better syntax for if-expressions and lambda-expressions is basically impossible. Guido likes it this way, and I think he's right.

对于这个问题(以及答案)，有一点非常重要: 函数式编程到底是什么，它最重要的特性是什么? 我将尝试给出我的观点:

Functional programming is a lot like writing math on a whiteboard. When you write equations on a whiteboard, you do not think about an execution order. There is (typically) no mutation. You don't come back the day after and look at it, and when you make the calculations again, you get a different result (or you may, if you've had some fresh coffee :)). Basically, what is on the board is there, and the answer was already there when you started writing things down, you just haven't realized what it is yet.

函数式编程与此很相似;你不需要改变，只需要评估 方程(或者在这种情况下，“程序”)，并找出答案是什么。这个项目 还在那里，没有改变。数据也是一样。

I would rank the following as the most important features of functional programming: a) referential transparency - if you evaluate the same statement at some other time and place, but with the same variable values, it will still mean the same. b) no side effect - no matter how long you stare at the whiteboard, the equation another guy is looking at at another whiteboard won't accidentally change. c) functions are values too. which can be passed around and applied with, or to, other variables. d) function composition, you can do h=g·f and thus define a new function h(..) which is equivalent to calling g(f(..)).

这个列表是按我的优先顺序排列的，所以参考透明度是最重要的， 而且没有副作用。

现在，如果你浏览python并检查该语言和库的支持程度， 并保证，这些方面，然后你就可以很好地回答你自己的问题。

Python几乎是一种函数式语言。它是“功能精简版”。

它有额外的特性，所以对某些人来说不够纯。

它还缺乏一些功能，因此对某些人来说还不够完整。

缺少的特性相对容易编写。查看类似这样的关于Python中的FP的帖子。

让我用一段代码来演示，这段代码摘自一个关于SO的“函数式”Python问题的答案

Python:

def grandKids(generation, kidsFunc, val):
  layer = [val]
  for i in xrange(generation):
    layer = itertools.chain.from_iterable(itertools.imap(kidsFunc, layer))
  return layer

Haskell:

grandKids generation kidsFunc val =
  iterate (concatMap kidsFunc) [val] !! generation

这里的主要区别是Haskell的标准库具有用于函数式编程的有用函数:在本例中是iterate、concat和(!!)

In addition to other answers, one reason Python and most other multi-paradigm languages are not well suited for true functional programming is because their compilers / virtual machines / run-times do not support functional optimization. This sort of optimization is achieved by the compiler understanding mathematical rules. For example, many programming languages support a map function or method. This is a fairly standard function that takes a function as one argument and a iterable as the second argument then applies that function to each element in the iterable.

不管怎样，map(foo()， x) * map(foo()， y)和map(foo()， x * y)是一样的。后者实际上比前者快，因为前者执行两个副本，而后者执行一个副本。

更好的函数式语言能够识别这些基于数学的关系，并自动执行优化。不致力于函数式范式的语言可能无法优化。