>> readability. Pythonic lambdas are just syntactic sugar in practice,
Paul> Actually it's the other way around: it's named functions that are Paul> the syntactic sugar. While I'm sure it can be done, I'd hate to see a non-trivial Python program written with lambda instead of def. (Take a crack at pystone if you're interested.) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list