Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this specific use case -- defining callbacks -- should be > addressed, rather than proposing a solution to something that isn't > necessary. Which is to say, no one *needs* anonymous functions; people > may need things which anonymous functions provide, but maybe there's > other ways to provide the same thing. Decorator abuse, for instance ;)
I'm not a big functional programming fan, so it should not come as a surprise that I don't often use lambda. The one place I do use it is in unit tests, where assertRaises() requires a callable. If what you're testing is an expression, you need to wrap it in a lambda. I suppose you could call this a special case of a callback. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
