Gary Herron wrote: > Mohammad Jeffry wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Can't a lambda uses the input parameter more then once in the lambda >> body? >> eg: >> lambda x : print x/60,x%60 >> >> I tried with def and it works but got syntax error with lambda. Below >> is an interactive sample: > > > Lambda evaluates a single *expression* and returns the result. As print > is a statement it does not qualify (and would provide nothing to return > even if it did). So just use a def.
or use sys.stdout.write in your lambda: import sys lambda x : sys.stdout.write("%d %d\n" % (x/60, x%60)) > It is constantly pointed out on > this list that the lambda provides no extra expressive power, They do, when one need a very trivial callable for callbacks - which is probably the main (if not the only) use case. > it is > merely a shortcut and, as you just found out, a rather restrictive one > at that. Of course. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list