What is the point of implementing monads in Python? I thought the point of monads was that they provide a mechanism for introducing side effects gracefully into a pure language (like, say, Haskell) while still allowing for type safety, per correspondences between category theory and type theory. Python is not strictly typed and makes side effects pretty easy, if I recall from the last time I wrote Python.

Seriously, what is this constant obsession with monads that has infected the programmers?

Why not be obsessed with, say, functors? I can then make statements like, "A functor is a wrapper. Anyone who tells you otherwise is being obtuse" and be just as correct, and sound just as smart.

wanders off grumbling to himself...