On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 7:26:01 PM UTC+12, Peter Otten wrote: > foo = lambda <args>: <expr> > > there is syntactic sugar in Python that allows you to write it as > > def foo(<args>): > return <expr> > > with the nice side effects that it improves the readability of tracebacks > and allows you to provide a docstring.
True, but then again the original had three lambdas, so one line would have to become at least 3×2 = 6 lines, more if you want docstrings. > def reduce(items, func=lambda x, y: x + y): ... There was a reason why “reduce” was removed from being a builtin function in Python 2.x, to being banished to functools in Python 3. > the alternative > > def reduce(items, func=add): ... > > looks more readable in my eyes even though somewhere ... Just use “sum” in this case. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
