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Date	Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:43:11 +0200
Subject	Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny
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> funcs = [ lambda x: x**i for i in range( 5 ) ]
> print funcs[0]( 2 )
> print funcs[1]( 2 )
> print funcs[2]( 2 )
>
> This gives me
>
> 16
> 16
> 16
>
> When I was excepting
>
> 1
> 2
> 4
>
> Does anyone know why?

And more importantly, what's the simplest way to achieve the latter? :)


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Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2012-07-11 08:43 +0200
  Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny Franck Ditter <franck@ditter.org> - 2012-07-12 08:49 +0200
  Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2012-07-12 09:44 +0000
    Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-12 11:29 +0000
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