Not trying to start anything, but what's functional about Python? It doesn't have/support tail recursion, a strong type system, pattern matching, immutability-by-default for lists and dictionaries.
From where I'm standing, python has some features that kinda look like functional programming concepts, but overall is an OO imperative language, like Ruby and many others.
My understanding for its preference from the DS community is due more for its library support in that domain.
From where I'm standing, python has some features that kinda look like functional programming concepts, but overall is an OO imperative language, like Ruby and many others.
My understanding for its preference from the DS community is due more for its library support in that domain.