using lambda to print everything in a list
Remco Gerlich
scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Sun Apr 29 03:39:56 EDT 2001
Christian Tanzer <tanzer at swing.co.at> wrote in comp.lang.python:
>
> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > My personal impression is that lambda is a (minor)
> > nuisance. Naming the code fragment that you want
> > to pass to some other function, by making it a
> > nested function, seems clearer & handier to me.
>
> What about using `map' to apply a method to each element in a list?
>
> Like in:
>
> map (lambda s : s.capitalize (), l)
>
> I wouldn't call a loop clearer in this case, despite the lambda.
That is debatable, but the list comprehension is fine:
[ s.capitalize() for s in l ]
> For strings, one could of course pass `string.capitalize' to `map'.
> Unfortunately, this loop hole exists only for strings, and the powers
> that be plan on making the string module obsolete, anyway.
I really don't think they plan on that.
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Remco Gerlich
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