Re: Fun and games with lambda

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:07:44 -0600
Subject	Re: Fun and games with lambda
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Wolfgang Rohdewald
<wolfgang@rohdewald.de> wrote:
> On Freitag 17 Juni 2011, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> run this one-
>> liner and wonder no more...
>
> looks like something dangerous to me. What does
> it do? rm -rf ?

The thread at the link discusses what it does in great detail.

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Fun and games with lambda Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-17 16:10 +0000
  Re: Fun and games with lambda Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de> - 2011-06-17 18:56 +0200
  Re: Fun and games with lambda Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 11:07 -0600
  Re: Fun and games with lambda Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> - 2011-06-17 12:02 -0700
  Re: Fun and games with lambda Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-18 10:40 +1000

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