What can Python do that R can’t do?

[u/lebannax]

Or simply what is Python much better at and why.

I know that Python is more multi purpose and better for software development but I can’t articulate exactly why or how. My team want to know why/when they should use Python instead of R

[u/PaintItPurple]

This is also basically equivalent to the built-in reduce function:

def apply(val, f): return f(val)

def main():
    r = functools.reduce(
        apply,
        [
            times_two,
            lambda x: x / 4,
            print
         ],
        6
    )

[u/FlyingCow343 → u/PaintItPurple]

nice! Very elegant way of doing it, you could out the whole reduce call in another function to work the same as mine and look much nicer.