Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1412258755 26062 64.122.56.22 (2 Oct 2014 14:05:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:05:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:78605 On 2014-10-02, cl@isbd.net wrote: > Travis Griggs wrote: >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Oct 1, 2014, at 04:12, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote: >> > >> > `lambda` is just a fancy way to define a function inline >> >> Not sure "fancy" is the correct adjective; more like syntactic tartness >> (a less sweet version of syntactic sugar). >> > It throws me because 'lambda' simply has no meaning whatsoever for me, > i.e. it's just a greek letter. > > So from my point of view it's like seeing 'epsilon' stuck in the > middle of some code. > > It's not as if I'm new to programming either, I've been writing > software professionally since the early 1970s, now retired. The use of "lamba" as a keyword to define an anonymous function is borrowed from Lisp which got it from Lambda calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this going to at involve RAW human ecstasy? gmail.com