Functions in Python: Working with Advanced Features of Python Functions

This course explores advanced Python function topics such as recursion closures and using generator functions to generate sequences. In 12 videos you will learn how to use decorators to add functionality to code; examine how recursion can be used to construct code to solve complex problems; and learn to write a terminating condition for a recursive function. Next you will learn how to use an Iterator to respond to a built-in next () function. Learners will also examine closures and how as functions they maintain their own lexical environment; and explore how closures are functions that can yield dramatic results in the distributed processing of code and are widely used in the implementation of distributed processing frameworks. Then you will learn how to use generator functions to generate sequences. You will learn how sequences can iterated upon by other parts of your program. Finally you will learn that using decorators offers simple ways of invoking higher-order functions.