lambda

[Martin Franklin]

This is one of the uses I put it to......

def some_function(self, stuff):
        print stuff

def some_other_function(self):
        button - Tkinter.Button(self, command= lambda self=self, stuff='help i'm stuck': self.some_function(stuff),
                                                      text='press me').pack()


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If you try to pass a variable to the first function as the command from the button

eg button=Tkinter.Button(self, command=self.some_function('help me.....')

It gets executed when the button is packed (on startup) before the user presses it.....

So I guess I use it to delay a callback!?!



> > Hmm, what exactly is the use of lambda?  It just isn't clickin for some reason....  Are they just syntactical candy (such as the         > ternary operator ?: in C++ is syntactical candy..) or what. *ponders*  Anyone who could explain it, and gimme a little example > would have
> my thanx. :)