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OSlash 0.6.3
Functors, Applicatives, And Monads in Python
OSlash (Ø) is a library for playing with functional programming in Python 3.8+. It's an attempt to re-implement some of
the code from Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! in Python 3.8. OSlash unifies
functional and object oriented paradigms by grouping related functions within classes. Objects are however never used
for storing values or mutable data, and data only lives within function closures.
OSlash is intended to be a tutorial. For practical functional programming in Python in production environments you
should use FSlash instead.
Install
> pip3 install oslash
The project currently contains implementations for:
Abstract Base Classes
Functor, for stuff that can be mapped
Applicative, for callable stuff
Monoid, for associative stuff
Monad, for monadic stuff
And Some Monads
Identity, boxed stuff in its simplest form
Maybe (Just | Nothing), for optional stuff
Either (Right | Left), for possible failures
List, purely functional list of stuff
IO Action, for impure stuff
Writer, for logging stuff
Reader, for callable stuff
State, for stateful computations of stuff
Cont, for continuation of stuff
Monadic functions
>>, for sequencing monadic actions
lift, for mapping a function over monadic values
join, for removing one level of monadic structure
compose, for composing monadic functions
Utility functions
compose, for composing 0 to n functions
But why?
Yes, I know there are other projects out there like PyMonad,
fn.py. I'm simply doing this in order to better understand the
book. It's so much easier to learn when you implement things yourself. The code may be
similar to PyMonad in structure, but is quite different in implementation.
Why is the project called OSlash? OSlash is the Norwegian character called Oslash.
Initially I wanted to create a project that used Ø and ø (unicode) for the project name and modules. It didn't work out
well, so I renamed it to OSlash.
Examples
Haskell:
> fmap (+3) (Just 2)
Just 5
> (+3) <$> (Just 2)
Just 5
Python:
>>> Just(2).map(lambda x: x+3)
Just 5
>>> (lambda x: x+3) % Just(2)
Just 5
IO Actions:
from oslash import put_line, get_line
main = put_line("What is your name?") | (lambda _:
get_line() | (lambda name:
put_line("What is your age?") | (lambda _:
get_line() | (lambda age:
put_line("Hello " + name + "!") | (lambda _:
put_line("You are " + age + " years old"))))))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Tutorials
Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures in Python.
Three Useful Monads (in progress)
Using Either monad in Python
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