On Thursday 30 June 2016 17:43, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > 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.
I hear that we've passed "Peak Newlines" now, so adding extra lines will get more and more expensive. I guess languages like C and Java will soon have to be abandoned, and everyone will move to writing minified Javascript and Perl one- liners. >> 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. Yes, and that reason is that Guido personally doesn't like reduce. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
