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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:44:12 +0100
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Ben Finney wrote:

> It's best to remember that ‘lambda’ is syntactic sugar for creating a
> function; the things it creates are not special in any way, they are
> normal functions, not “lambdas”.

Could you please elaborate why ‘lambda’ does not create “lambdas”.  I'm
a Python beginner (not new to programming, though), and rather confused
about your statement.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker