On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:09:57 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: >> Python does not have lambda objects. It has lambda expressions that >> produce function objects identical except for .__name__ to the >> equivalent def statement output. > > Sure sounds like python has lambda objects to me then... the fact > they're a special case of some more general construct is mostly > semantics, /especially/ in the context of the point I was actually > making, no?
No. Lambdas are a *syntactical construct*, not an object. You wouldn't talk about "while objects" and "if objects" and "comment objects" *because they're not objects*. Neither are lambdas -- they're syntax, which creates ordinary functions: >>> def f(x): ... return x ... >>> g = lambda x: x >>> type(f) is type(g) True Functions created with def and functions created with lambda are *precisely* the same type of object. There is no such thing as a "lambda object" which is a "special case" of ordinary functions, there are just functions. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
