Because it can be done

search_list_of_dicts.py

from operator import itemgetter, eq
from functools import partial

"""
Find dictionary with ID = 2 in a functional way
"""
records = [{'id': 1}, {'id': 2}, {'id': 3}, {'id': 4}]

def compose(*funcs):
    def h(*args, **kwargs):
        first_run = True
        last = None
        for f in funcs:
            if first_run:
                last = f(*args, **kwargs)
                first_run = False
            else:
                last = f(last)
        return last
    return h

id_equals_2 = partial(eq, 2)
get_id = itemgetter('id')
finder = compose(get_id, id_equals_2)
filtered_records = filter(finder, records) # Short version: filter(compose(itemgetter('id'), partial(eq, 2)), data)
# And WTF, can't call `[1,2].first()` or `[1,2].last()` and have them return item or None.

record = next(filtered_records) # returning an iterator is blah to ergonomics
assert records[1] == record, "Or else I'm dumb"