En Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:04:17 -0300, Andy Dingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I still don't understand what a lambda is _for_ in Python. I know what > they are, I know what the alternatives are, but I still haven't found > an instance where it permits something novel to be done that couldn't > be done otherwise (if maybe not so neatly). A lambda is a shorthand for a simple anonymous function. Any lambda can be written as a function: lambda args: expression is the same as: def __anonymous(args): return expression (but the inverse is not true; lambda only allows a single expression in the function body). Except for easy event binding in some GUIs, deferred argument evaluation, and maybe some other case, the're not used much anyway. Prior common usage with map and filter can be replaced by list comprehensions (a lot more clear, and perhaps as fast - any benchmark?) -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
