On Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:35:39 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:27 AM, <fp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Chris, call me a snob, but I resent using lambdas (aren't they usually > > considered odd/bad practice in python?) > > > > They're not bad practice; all they are is a function without a name, > > that's restricted to returning a single expression. So they're > > perfectly suited to this task, and ill-suited to some others. > > > > Like everything, lambda's a tool that can be used or misused. > > > > ChrisA
For this purpose however, I suspect that a named function with a proper docstring that can be imported and reused over and over again is probably more appropriate than a lambda (the first post is telling us about something happening from time to time...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
