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LINQ in Python

April 22nd, 2008

Chui's counterpoint pines:

There are some interesting ideas raised in LINQ that even Python developers ought to explore and consider adopting in a future Python.

Python had all this before LINQ in Dejavu and now Geniusql, and more pythonically, to boot. Instead of:

var AnIQueryable = from Customer in db.Customers where
    Customer.FirstName.StartsWith("m") select Customer;

you can write:

m_names = Customer.select(
    lambda cust: cust.FirstName.startswith("m"))

and instead of:

var AverageRuns =(from Master in this.db.Masters
    select Master.Runs).Average()

you can write:

avgruns = Masters.select(lambda m: avg(m.Runs))

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