How are Python2's built-in reduce and functools.reduce different?

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Both have exact same documentation, and it seems to me that both stem from same source code in https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/Modules/_functoolsmodule.c.

However, I am not sure about it. I didn't find any other refernces in the source code of CPython. Can some one shed some more light on this here?

For one, it appears that Python 3 dropped support for `reduce()` without using `functools`. — StardustGogeta, May 01 '16 at 21:18

Binary Birch Tree · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-18T13:38:03.343

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This is the same function as reduce(). It is made available in this module to allow writing code more forward-compatible with Python 3.

edited May 18 '16 at 13:38

answered May 01 '16 at 21:22

Binary Birch Tree

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