map is useless!

[Duncan Booth]

rantingrick <rantingrick at gmail.com> wrote:

> Python map is just completely useless. For one it so damn slow why
> even bother putting it in the language? And secondly, the total "girl-
> man" weakness of lambda renders it completely mute!

Do you realise that you don't have to use lambda? If you need more than a 
single expression just create a named function.