On 1 Aug, 2013, at 16:48, Alexander Shorin <kxe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ronald, > > I understand this, but I'm a bit confused about fate of lambdas with > such guideline since I see no more reasons to use them with p.9 > statement: long lines, code duplicate, no mock and well tests etc. - > all these problems could be solved with assigning lambda to some name, > but now they are looks useless (or useful only for very trivial cases) That sounds about right :-) Note that: f = lambda x: x ** 2 And: def f(x): return x ** 2 Are functionally equivalent and use the same byte code. The only differences are that the lambda saves two characters in typing, and the "def" variant has a more useful value in its __name__ attribute. IMHO The lambda variant also looks uglier (even with the def variant on a single line). Ronald > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> > wrote: >> >> On 1 Aug, 2013, at 16:34, Alexander Shorin <kxe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Nick, >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 9. Explicit guideline not to assign lambdas to names (use def, that's >>>> what it's for) >>> >>> Even for propose to fit chars-per-line limit and/or to remove >>> duplicates (especially for sorted groupby case)? >> >> When you do "name = lambda ..." you've created a named function, when you >> do that your better of using def statement for the reasons Nick mentioned >> in the PEP. >> >> Ronald >> >>> >>> -- >>> ,,,^..^,,, >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Python-Dev mailing list >>> Python-Dev@python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >>> Unsubscribe: >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com >> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com