On Oct 23, 1:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 22 oct, 23:39, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nope, still doesn't work: > > > def fact(x): > > return reduce(operator.mul,xrange(1,x+1),1) > > > fact() should raise an exception if x is negative. > > So, where is the problem? if not allowing negative numbers is so > important for you, add a if statement and raise a ValueError exception.
indeed, especially considering that fact(x) is essentially just a lambda statement as Marco Mariani said. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
