[Tutor] map, filter and lambda functions

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> :You don't need to put lambda functions, you can just provide 
> :string.strip and string.upper without using lambda what-so-ever.
> 
> Are you sure that you can do this without lambda? I tried today, and
> couldn't get it to work without lambda.
> 
> >>> mylist
> ['a', 'b', 'c', '']
> >>> mylist = map(string.upper(x), mylist)

Try:

mylist = map(string.upper, mylist)

Its like function pointers in C (Since I know you know C :-) in that 
you just use the name - no parens. It is after all a pointer to a 
function that you are passing (actually a reference to a callable 
object to be pedantic...)

Alan G