or return other functions. In general, any callable object can be treated as a
function for the purposes of this module.
-The :mod:`functools` module defines the following function:
+The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
+
+
+.. function:: reduce(function, iterable[, initializer])
+
+ This is the same function as :func:`reduce`. It is made available in this module
+ to allow writing code more forward-compatible with Python 3.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
.. function:: partial(func[,*args][, **keywords])