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Re: Doctest failing

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Date 2011-09-12 13:06 +1000
Subject Re: Doctest failing
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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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

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Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 04:20 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-09-10 07:43 -0400
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:36 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-09-10 13:47 +0200
    Re: Doctest failing ting@thsu.org - 2011-09-10 19:12 -0700
      Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:42 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-10 13:50 +0200
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:39 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Alister Ware <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2011-09-10 12:24 +0000
    Re: Doctest failing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 01:56 +1000
      Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:40 -0700
    Re: Doctest failing Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-09-11 11:43 -0700
    Re: Doctest failing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 11:03 +1000
      Re: Doctest failing Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-09-12 11:37 +1000
        Re: Doctest failing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 13:06 +1000
          Re: Doctest failing Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-12 14:29 +1000
  Re: Doctest failing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-10 13:59 -0400
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 04:46 -0700
      Re: Doctest failing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-11 13:03 -0400
  Re: Doctest failing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-10 15:36 -0400
  Re: Doctest failing Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-09-10 22:49 +0200
  Re: Doctest failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-10 16:25 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-10 23:18 -0700
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:43 -0700
      Re: Doctest failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-11 12:37 -0700

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