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		ecounysis on Feb 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Put your programming skills to the test > The Python version seems to be using an interpreter that frankly just doesn't work: `NameError: name 'reduce' is not defined`

sblom on Feb 12, 2012 [–]

If it's python3, the previously built-in reduce() has been relegated to the functools module. But I don't think this is python 3.

I'm not sure what it is, but I know I don't like "guess which subset of the language you get" being harder than actually solving the algorithms challenges.

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