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

[Ben Finney]

Westley Martínez <anikom15 at gmail.com> writes:

> My reasoning is that we use class to make classes, lambda to make
> lambda functions, and def to make--well not defs--functions, which
> doesn't really make sense to me.

Your reasoning is flawed. There is no such thing in Python as a “lambda
function”.

Python has functions. It doesn't matter whether you use a ‘lambda’ or
‘def’ statement to create it, there's no resulting difference in the
type of the object. It is a function.

So: you make a class with a ‘class’ statement; you make a function using
either a ‘def’ statement or a ‘lambda’ expression. There is no third
type of object being discussed here.

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Ben Finney