Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:14:40 +0200, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> In 3.0 it has to be rewritten as >> >> def f(ab): >> a, b = ab >> return a*b >> >> i. e. it needs a statement and an expression and is therefore no >> longer suitable for a lambda. >> > > Given that most lambda's are rather short, is it really that > much of a pain to just use (for the above example) ab[0]*ab[1] without > unpacking?
Well -- it is because the code used to be short and sweet that it feels ugly to me to change lambda (a, b): a * b into lambda ab: ab[0] * ab[1] The first looks perfect -- it matches the math behind the code that I am writing. The second does not look so nice. From reading the PEP-3113 I got the impression that the author thought that this feature was unused and didn't matter. With this I wish to say that it matters to me. -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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