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Despite not being a pure functional language, a lot of praise that python receives are for features that stem from functional paradigms. Many are second nature to python programmers, but over the years I have seen people miss out on some important features. I gathered a few, along with examples, to give a brief demonstration of the convenience they can bring.

Replace if/else with or

With values that might be None, you can use or instead of if/else to provide a default. I had used this for years with Javascript, without knowing it was also possible in Python.

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def get_greeting_prefix(user_title: str | None):
    if user_title:
        return user_title
    return ""

  

Above snippet can shortened to this:

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def get_greeting_prefix(user_title: str | None):
    return user_title or ""

  

Pattern Matching and Unpacking

The overdue arrival of match to python means that so many switch style statements are expresse