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Lazy functional style streams for Python
null_stream = (None, None)
def map(f, stream):
if stream is null_stream: return null_stream
return (f(head(stream)), lambda: map(f, tail(stream)))
def reduce(f, result, stream):
if stream is null_stream: return result
return reduce(f, f(result, head(stream)), tail(stream))
def take(N, stream):
if N <= 0 or stream is null_stream: return null_stream
return (head(stream), lambda: take(N-1, tail(stream)))
def to_array(stream):
return reduce(lambda a, x: a + [x], [], stream)
def filter(pred, stream):
if stream is null_stream: return null_stream
if pred(head(stream)):
return (head(stream), lambda: filter(pred, tail(stream)))
return filter(pred, tail(stream))
def sieve(stream):
if stream is null_stream: return null_stream
h = head(stream)
return (h, lambda: sieve(filter(lambda x: x%h != 0, tail(stream))))
def head((H, _)): return H
def tail((_, T)): return T()
def integers_from(N): return (N, lambda: integers_from(N+1))
def rec_stream(f):
return (f, lambda: rec_stream(lambda x: f(f(x))))
def newton(f, fdash):
return lambda x: x - f(x)/float(fdash(x))
def newton_solver(iters, f, fdash):
def solve(v):
n = newton(lambda x: f(x) - v, fdash)
stream = rec_stream(n)
return to_array(take(iters, stream))[-1]
return solve
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