In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Thanks. :-) Two remarks.
>> o One-liner fits the eyes & brains of a portion of people.
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>True! So, personally, I'd rather code, e.g.,
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>def bools(lst): return map(bool, lst)
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>rather than breal this one-liner into two lines at the colon, as per
>standard Python style. However, uniformity has its advantages, too; I'm
>ready for the one-liner style to be outlawed in Python 3.0, purely in
>the advantage of uniformity.
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>Note that lambda is utterly useless here, be it for one-liners or not.
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Please say that last sentence another way. I *think* you mean
that to define (def) a non-pathologic named function, lambda
provides no advantage; one sacrifices no expressivity by a
restriction to def-s. Is that right?
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