Jason Zheng wrote:
The true beauty of lambda function is not the convenience of creating functions without naming them. Lambda constructs truly enables higher-order function. For example, I can create a function A that returns a function B that does something interesting according to the arguments that I pass to function A.
How does that differ from this?
>>> def A(x): ... if x: ... def B(): return "True" ... else: ... def B(): return "False" ... return B ... >>> A(1) <function B at 0xa0c65dc> >>> _() 'True' >>> A(0) <function B at 0xa0c65dc> >>> _() 'False' -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
