On Friday, August 30, 2013 4:09:45 AM UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:50:39 -0700, fp2161 wrote: > > > > > My way is so obvious that it may not be that interesting... > > > > > > def func4(f1,f2,f3,f4): > > > def anon(x): > > > f1(f2(f3(f4(x)))) > > > return anon
> I don't think "obvious" is quite the right description. Well, perhaps > > "obviously wrong" :-) > You also need to define func1 (trivial), func2, func3, func5, func6, > > func7, func8, ..., func2147483647, plus another master function to choose > > between them, depending on the number of functions provided as argument. > I assume that the maximum number of arguments given is 2**31-1. Python > > may not actually have that limitation, in which case you would need to > > define additional functions. > Or... you would have to come up with an implementation which doesn't hard- > > code the number of functions used. > > Steven I got the generalisation criticism before yours, and generalised it accordingly. Unfortunately it was wrong essentially because it was so obvious that Josh Englsih posted essentially the same one before me... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
