I went back to the code recently and I remembered what the problem was. I was using multiprocessing.Pool.pmap which takes a callable (the lambda here) so I wasn't able to use comprehensions or starmap
Is there anything for situations like these? Kind Regards, Sam Ezeh On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 at 22:36, Sam Ezeh <sam.z.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two questions here. > > Firstly, does anybody know of existing discussions (e.g. on here or on > python-ideas) relating to unpacking inside lambda expressions? > > I found myself wanting to write the following. > > ``` > map( > lambda (module, data): result.process(module, data), > jobs > ) > ``` > However, it's of course not legal Python syntax. > > The following were potential options but I felt they removed some of > the meaning from the code, making it less understandable for other > people. > > ``` > map( > lambda job: result.process(job[0], job[1]), > jobs > ) > ``` > > ``` > map( > lambda job: result.process(*job), > jobs > ) > ``` > > Secondly, for situations like these, do you have any go-to methods of > rewriting these while maintaining clarity? > > Kind Regards, > Sam Ezeh -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
