[Tutor] Can't use builtin function objects like user defined objects

[Gerrit Holl]

<quote name="Emile van Sebille" date="952060795" email="emile@fenx.com">
> As a follow up then, why doesn't this work:
> 
> >>> testtext = ['Four', 'lines', 'of', 'text.']
> >>> map(lambda x: x, testtext)
> ['Four', 'lines', 'of', 'text.']
> >>> map(lambda x: print x, testtext)
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Lambda's have an extremely strange syntax; you can't use statements
from within lambda's. Try:

>>> map(lambda x: sys.stdout.write(x), testtext)

instead.

</quote>

Hope that helps!

regards,
Gerrit.

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