How to create functors?

[Jan Kaliszewski]

18-08-2009 o 22:32:55 Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 18, 3:31 pm, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Robert Dailey <rcdai... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > I want to simply wrap a function up into an object so it can be called
>> > with no parameters. The parameters that it would otherwise have taken
>> > are already filled in. Like so:
>>
>> >       print1 = lambda: print( "Foobar" )
>> >       print1()
>>
>> > However, the above code fails with:
>>
>> >   File "C:\IT\work\distro_test\distribute_radix.py", line 286
>> >     print1 = lambda: print( "Foobar" )
>> >                          ^
>> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>
>> > How can I get this working?
>>
>> def print1():
>>     print "Foobar"
>>
>> It looks like in your version of Python "print" isn't a function. It  
>> always
>> helps if you say the exact version you are using in your question as the
>> exact answer you need may vary.
>
> I'm using Python 2.6. And using the legacy syntax in the lambda does
> not work either.

In Python 1.x/2.x 'print' is a keyword-based statement, not a function
-- then you cannot use it in lambda (which in Python is limited to
single expressions, and statements are not allowed in it).

You can try using sys.stdout.write() instead.

> I want to avoid using a def if possible.

But what for? Usualy def is more readable than lambda and it's not worth
to lose readibility just to save a few keystrokes.

Cheers,
*j

-- 
Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>