[Python-ideas] Thoughts on lambda expressions

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 02.03.2016 21:01, Abe Dillon wrote:
> I'm new here, but I know that lambda expression syntax has probably been 
> discussed to oblivion. I have searched previous posts without finding 
> anything exactly like my idea so here it is:
> 
> # instead of this
> hand = sorted(cards, key=lambda card: card.suit)  # sort some iterable of 
> cards by suit
> 
> # do this
> hand = sorted(cards, key=(card.suit from card))  # sort some iterable of 
> cards by suit
> #                                   |<= you can stop reading here and still 
> have a good sense of what the code does  

Why not this ?

import operator
hand = sorted(cards, key=operator.attrgetter('suit'))

# For the curious:
# https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/operator.html#operator.attrgetter

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