Examples of how to use reduce() in python

reduce_example.py

# The reduce() function applies a function which will reduce the sequence to a single value. 
# There are a number of special-purpose reduce functions that we’ve already seen. 
# These reductions include sum(), any(), all().

def red_max(x, y):
  return x if x > y else y

def red_sum(x, y):
	return x + y

def main():
	ints = [1,25,3,55,37,4]
	print "input: {}".format(ints)
	print "find max using reduce:"
	print reduce(red_max, ints)
	print "find sum using reduce:"
	print reduce(red_sum, ints )


if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()