[Tutor] How can I have type "function" in my script?

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/05/12 11:23, xancorreu wrote:

> It works with
>
> c = Tag("twice", type(lambda x: x), lambda x: 2*x)
>
> but I want to specify the type of (lambda x: x) **manually** as I do
> with str in b


Unfortunately we don't always get what we want.
You have to use type for functions.

You can use a very simple function, but you need to use type()...

type(lambda : 0)

is about as simple as you can do it with lambda...

However, you still haven't said why you want the type. It's very unusual 
in Python to need explicit type information. If we knew what you were 
trying to do with it we might be able to offer a more pythonic way to go 
about it.


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Alan G
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