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On Feb 25, 2015, at 21:45, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> http://www.slideshare.net/pydanny/python-worst-practices

I agree with you that Python lambdas have little use beyond the most =
trivial use cases.

For the non-trivial cases, I like to define a named function which does =
the job. And also provides documentation, just by virtue of being named =
(and having a docstring).

I also tend to do this in JavaScript code, which also can benefit from =
this.

Greetings,

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"You can't actually make computers run faster, you can only make them do =
less." - RiderOfGiraffes