Charles Hartman wrote: > On Mar 27, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Nicolas Évrard wrote: > >>> >>> I hope the question is clear enough. I have a feeling I'm ignoring a >>> simple technique . . . >> >> lambda ! >> >> map(lambda x: timestwo(getlength(x)), ...) > > Ah, lambda! I've heard so much bad-mouthing of lambda that I forgot to > learn it . . . This is quite cool, and it looks as though it would work > with more complicated function calls than the ones in my toy example. > Thanks.
Always keep in mind that a local named function can always be used instead of lambda. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list