Ben Finney wrote: > Christoph Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> writes: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> It's best to remember that ‘lambda’ is syntactic sugar for creating >>> a function; the things it creates are not special in any way, they >>> are normal functions, not “lambdas”. >> >> Could you please elaborate why ‘lambda’ does not create “lambdas”. I'm >> a Python beginner (not new to programming, though), and rather >> confused about your statement. > > We already have a term for what the ‘lambda’ keyword creates: a > function. > > That is, ‘lambda’ creates a function object, without anything to > distinguish it from a function created any other way.
Ah, now I understand. It's "just" about proper naming. Thanks. :) -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
