block/lambda

[Duncan Booth]

iu2 <israelu at elbit.co.il> wrote:

> Is it possible to grant Python another syntactic mark, similar to
> triple quotes, that will actually make the enclosed code a compiled
> code, or an anonymous function?
> 

Yes, the syntactic mark you are looking for is 'def'.

Your example becomes:

>>> def dotimes(n, callable):
	for i in range(n): callable(i)

	
>>> def block(i):
	for j in range(i):
		print j,
	print

	
>>> dotimes(5, block)

0
0 1
0 1 2
0 1 2 3

The only thing you asked for that this doesn't do is make 'block' 
anonymous, but actually that is a good thing.


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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com