syntax question
Timo Furrer
tuxtimo at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 07:21:06 EDT 2018
>From the Python documentation at
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#lambda-expressions
> Small anonymous functions can be created with the lambda
<https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#lambda> keyword. This
function returns the sum of its two arguments: lambda a, b: a+b. Lambda
functions can be used wherever function objects are required. They are
syntactically restricted to a single expression. Semantically, they are
just syntactic sugar for a normal function definition.
Thus, in your case the lambda is equivalent to:
def line(x):
return x + 3
Cheers, Timo
On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 1:12 PM Sharan Basappa <sharan.basappa at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me what the following line in a python program does:
>
> line = lambda x: x + 3
>
> I have pasted the entire code below for reference:
>
> from scipy.optimize import fsolve
> import numpy as np
> line = lambda x: x + 3
> solution = fsolve(line, -2)
> print solution
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