Monads are useful and unknowingly created in other languages all the time [0]. If you aren't quite comfortable enough with monads to follow the first link, I f

Monads are useful and unknowingly created in other languages all the time [0]. If you aren't quite comfortable enough with monads to follow the first link, I found this implementing monads in python tutorial[1] to be a huge help. For those that want to play with Monads in Python, check out PyMonad[2]. 0: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... 1: http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/01/monads-in-python-with-nice-syntax.html http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/01/monads-in-python-with-n... 2: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMonad/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMonad/