On Wed, 04 May 2005 23:08:16 +0200, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mayer wrote: > >> I would like to define a very large annonymous function, one with >> several statements in sequence. I know how to define annonymous >> functions, but I don't know how to define a sequence of statements in >> their body. Can this be done in Python? If so, how? > >No, it can't. Why do you prefer your function to be anonymous? > Depends on what you mean by "anonymous" ;-) >>> def foo(): ... print 'statement 1' ... print 'statement 2' ... print 'statement etc' ... >>> foo.__name__ = '' # make really anonymous >>> fooholder = [foo] >>> del foo # forget name binding too >>> dir() ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'fooholder'] >>> fooholder.append(lambda: 'not that anonymous ;-)') >>> fooholder [<function at 0x02EE8D84>, <function <lambda> at 0x02EE8D14>] >>> [f.__name__ for f in fooholder] ['', '<lambda>'] >>> fooholder[0](), fooholder[1]() statement 1 statement 2 statement etc (None, 'not that anonymous ;-)') Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
