Functions are first class objects: Higher Order Functions
I am currently working through Computational Statistics in Python 's module Functions are first class objects , and for this - I have worked with delegates and higher order functions in other languages - I put together this example to better grasp higher order functions in Python: def power_function(num, power): """power of num.""" return num**power def add_function(num, more): """sum of num.""" return num+more def runFunction(fx, x, y): return fx(x,y) num = 2 powers = range(0,64) arrPower = list(map(lambda x: runFunction(power_function, num, x), powers)) arrAdd = list(map(lambda x: runFunction(add_function, num, x), powers)) arrPower arrAdd