On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:13:08 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
> | I even use "named anonymous functions" *cough* by assigning lambda |
> functions to names:
> |
> | foo = lambda x: x+1
>
> Even though I consider the above to be clearly inferior to
>
> def foo(x): return x+1
>
> since the latter names the function 'foo' instead of the generic
> '<lambda>'.
Absolutely. If foo() was a function that the user would see, I would
certainly use the def form to create it.
But in a situation like this:
def parrot(x, y, z, func=None):
if func is None:
func = lambda x: x+1
return func(x+y+z)
I don't see any advantage to writing it as:
def parrot(x, y, z, func=None):
if func is None:
def func(x): return x+1
return func(x+y+z)
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