On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:26:19 +1000, John Machin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> >> >>>>>''.join(map(lambda n: chr(n), (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D))) >> >> 'spam' > > Why the verbal diarrhoea?
One line is hardly verbal diarrhoea. > What's wrong with the (already posted) > > ''.join(map(chr, (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D))) > > ??? Nothing. If I had seen the already posted solution using chr on its own without lambda, I wouldn't have bothered posting the lambda solution. But I didn't, so I did. As another poster has already pointed out, lambda cries out for over-use, and this was a perfect example of it. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list