[Python-Dev] Use an empty def as a lambda

[Joe Pinsonault]

I think it's a great idea personally. It's explicit and obvious. "lamda" is
too computer sciencey
On Sep 19, 2013 1:55 PM, "Ben Gift" <benhgift at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the lambda keyword is difficult to understand for many people. It
> would be more pythonic to use an empty def call instead.
>
> For instance this:
>
>     words.sort(key = lambda x: x[2])
>
> could look like this:
>
>     words.sort(key = def (x): x[2])
>
> It's obvious and explicit that we're creating an unnamed, anonymous
> function this way.
>
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