using lambda to print everything in a list
Christian Tanzer
tanzer at swing.co.at
Sat Apr 28 07:33:22 EDT 2001
"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.
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.
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