On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:54:34 GMT, Kartic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Aha..I guess I posted too soon.
You might want to take a look at this cookbook entry: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/219300
Defines lambdas to convert integer to binary. The one you probably want is - >>> bstr = lambda n, l=16: n<0 and binarystr((2L<<l)+n) or n and bstr(n>>1).lstrip('0')+str(n&1) or '0' >>> bstr(ord('a')) '1100001'
Death to inappropriate usage of lambda. First of all, that lambda is buggy, it doesn't work for negative numbers, but you can't immediately see that because of the compressed nature of the code.
[snip how to write better code without lambdas]
Your discussion here was nicely illustrative. You might consider adding something to the "Overuse of Lambda" discussion in:
http://www.python.org/moin/DubiousPython
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
