On Sep 5, 7:38 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove- > 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*. This rhetoric precludes functions objects as well and is entirely non- compelling.
> Functions created with def and functions created with lambda are > *precisely* the same type of object. Which means you have lambda objects. The fact they're same as any other function is irrelevant and not especially interesting. > There is no such thing as a "lambda > object" which is a "special case" of ordinary functions, there are just > functions. Hey, I was just trying to resolve tjr's view, he seemed to think that .__name__ is different is pretty important, and he's the one you should take your objections up with, not me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
