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This is actually a follow-up question of Yet another Pascal triangle in Python written in functional programming pattern, which is put on hold for posting broken code.

Again, this is my implementation of a Pascal program, which is used to print an n-order Pascal triangle. I write it to familiarize myself with Python's Functional Programming Modules. Some changes have been made to get the code work and make it more "functional"

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import operator
from itertools import starmap, tee
def pairwise(iterable):
 """
 s -> (s0,s1), (s1,s2), (s2,s3), ...
 https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes
 """
 a, b = tee(iterable)
 next(b, None)
 return zip(a, b)
def pascal_row(n):
 """
 Return a generator that yields the nth row of a Pascal triangle
 """
 if n < 2:
 return (x for x in [1])
 else:
 def dispatch():
 yield 1
 yield from starmap(operator.add, pairwise(pascal_row(n-1)))
 yield 1
 return dispatch()
def print_pascal(n):
 """
 Print an n-order Pascal triangle
 """
 if n > 0:
 print_pascal(n-1)
 print(list(pascal_row(n)))
print_pascal(10)

Output:

[1]
[1, 1]
[1, 2, 1]
[1, 3, 3, 1]
[1, 4, 6, 4, 1]
[1, 5, 10, 10, 5, 1]
[1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1]
[1, 7, 21, 35, 35, 21, 7, 1]
[1, 8, 28, 56, 70, 56, 28, 8, 1]
[1, 9, 36, 84, 126, 126, 84, 36, 9, 1]

Please let me know if this piece of code isn't reflecting the essence of functional programming correctly.