On 5/18/2018 4:53 PM, Noah Simon wrote:
Hello all, I was developing a script using an asyncio-based API, when I came across the need to define an asynchronous lambda.
Not really.
I found this syntax does not currently exist. Obviously I could have (and did) just write a regular coroutine, but for simple one-line functions and such, I think an asynchronous lambda syntax would be useful. I do not have the experience to write a PEP or implement this, so I was wondering what you all think of the idea.
What I was thinking:
foo = async lambda a, b: b + await bar(a
PEP8 intentionally and properly discourages 'name = lambda ...' as inferior to 'def name(...'. For the above, async def foo(a, b): return b + await bar(a)
I posted an issue https://bugs.python.org/issue33447 on the issue tracker suggesting this, and was directed to this mailing list.
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