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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? |
| Date | 2014-10-02 19:36 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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On 2014-10-02, cl@isbd.net <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2014-10-02, cl@isbd.net <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>
> Ah, so at least there is a reason for it, I'm far from being a
> mathematician though so it's not particularly obvious (for me
> anyway).
We EE types did get complex number notation using "j" which the
mathematicians find not particularly obvious.
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How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 10:58 +0100
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-01 12:24 +0200
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 11:45 +0100
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 06:56 -0400
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-01 13:16 +0100
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-01 13:12 +0200
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 21:57 -0700
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-02 10:40 +0100
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-02 14:17 +0300
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 10:46 -0700
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-02 14:05 +0000
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? cl@isbd.net - 2014-10-02 17:33 +0100
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 13:15 -0600
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-02 19:36 +0000
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 13:06 -0700
Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-03 09:16 +1000
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