Walter S. Leipold wrote: > I think that Charlie's point is that, when you use "def <name>", you have ><name> polluting your namespace. The whole program becomes harder to > understand because you can't ignore <name> anywhere, even if it was only > ever intended to be used in one place. It's a good point, and reasonable > people can disagree about whether the namespace pollution or the > unreadability of lambda is a bigger problem. >
Are you using some special version of Python with only one namespace? My copy came complete with a variety of useful namespaces and even lets me define my own. For example I have local namespaces inside functions which let me ignore the names I have used in the function everywhere outside the function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
