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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:06:54 +1000
Subject: Re: Doctest failing
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Those are only practically the same if you ignore the practical worth of
> a function knowing the name it was defined with. The latter does not
> have that, hence I don't see it as practically the same as the former.
>

I know, but in the context of explaining what "lambda" means, it's
practically the same. Lambdas can't (afaik) have docstrings either,
etc, etc, but in terms of defining lambda, the two are more-or-less
equivalent.

ChrisA