The Toolz library has a lot of helper functions for writing more functional Python code.
0:00 Intro
0:16 accumulate
1:20 concat
2:03 concatv
2:54 cons
3:56 count
4:45 diff
6:50 drop
7:27 first
7:54 frequencies
9:20 get
10:25 groupby
11:28 interleave
12:22 interpose
13:06 isdistinct
14:14 isiterable
14:44 iterate
16:02 last
16:27 mapcat
17:23 merge_sorted
18:18 nth
18:42 partition
19:39 partition_all
20:35 peek
21:58 peekn