[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Indeed, there are many ways this could be done. Some are more > concise, some are more efficient. As I said, I did it the way I did > it to try out lambdas. Your way achieves the result, rather elegantly > I think, but teaches me nothing about using lambdas.
Unfortunately what you wrote taught you nothing about using lambda either. I think you were looking for it to have mystic powers, when in fact all it gives you is an alternative way to define a function. > > Pardon my tetchiness, but it is a little hard to receive such blunt > and inflexible replies to my posts. It was blunt because your post was so wide of the mark, yet it was well written and at least at first glance sounded plausible. Other people had even followed up on minor points having apparently not spotted the bigger problem. Remember that what you post here is going to be archived by Google and instructing (or misleading) people for years to come so jumping hard on factual errors is (I think) worthwhile. (And I really appreciate it every time other people have jumped on things I've got wrong.) On the other hand, there are plenty of people who use lambda in situations which are more or less appropriate. Just how appropriate they are is usually a matter of opinion, and while I may express my opinion when I think they are misusing them, that's all it is: an opinion. Everyone is free to disagree (and generally does). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
