On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:56 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Terry Reedy a écrit : > > Robert Dailey wrote: > > > >> I'm using Python 2.6. And using the legacy syntax in the lambda does > >> not work either. I want to avoid using a def if possible. Thanks. > > > > In Python, writing > > > > name = lambda arg: expr > > > > instead of > > > > def name(arg): return expr > > > > is all negative and no positive and should be avoided. > > Except that def is a statement, and as such can't be used as a named > params when calling a function expecting a callback, ie: > > vroom = some_dead('parrot', name=lambda arg: exp) > > (notice the 'name = lambda arg: exp' ?-) >
Which offers no added functionality over: def name_func(arg): return exp vroom = some_dead('parrot', name=name_func) except for confusion in debugging. :) (See other excessively long threads on lambda for further discussion of the debugging headaches caused by lambdas. > Ok, nitpicking. Me --->[] > > <g> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list