"Updating" lambda functions
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Sep 16 21:47:07 EDT 2004
"Oliver Fromme" <olli at haluter.fromme.com> wrote in message
news:2qtl0oF139gn6U1 at uni-berlin.de...
> fu = lambda x: x
> fu = lambda x: fu(x) + 17
etc
I am curious if there is any reason other that habit carried over from
other languages to not write the above as
def fu(x): return x
def fu(x): return fu(x) + 17
etc
Granted, the latter takes 2 more keystrokes, but the resulting object gets
a proper .name attribute. And, of course, the def form is required for a
multiline body anyway.
(Note: I am not asking about the use of lambda *within* an expression or as
a return value, but only the immediate name-binding of the supposedly
anonymous function where one does not want anonymity.)
Terry J. Reedy
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