Fate of lambda, Functional Programming in Python...

[Bernhard Herzog]

Jeff Sandys <sandysj at juno.com> writes:

> How about this use of lambda?
> (from another post 'RE: How to sort this kind of list easily?' today)
[...]
> |  Or if you want to sort only on your Id, use a lambda:
> |  l.sort(lambda x,y: cmp(x[0],y[0]))

@l.sort
def sort_on_zeroth(x, y):
    return cmp(x[0], y[0])

Gives a whole new meaning to decorate-sort-undecorate ;-)

   Bernhard

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