>>>>> mousem...@gmail.com (m) wrote:
>m> Hello all,
>m> I really like the lambda function for a particular task i have: I am
>m> writing some simulation software, working with many different
>m> materials. Each material with many different properties, some are
>m> temperature dependent, others aren't, some are defined by a function,
>m> some are a lookup table, some are constant. Here is a simplified
>m> version:
>m> class material(object):
>m> def __init__(self,density):
>m> self.density=density
>m> airdensity=lambda T:100000/(287*T)
>m> air=material(airdensity)
>m> steeldensity=lambda T:interp(T,[0,1000],[7856,7813])
>m> steel=material(steeldensity)
>m> rockdensity=lambda T:5000
>m> rock=material(rockdensity)
The following isn't much different (only 6 chars more per def):
def airdensity(T): return 100000/(287*T)
air=material(airdensity)
def steeldensity(T): return interp(T,[0,1000],[7856,7813])
steel=material(steeldensity)
def rockdensity(T): return 5000
rock=material(rockdensity)
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