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Re: Question on lambdas

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Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.

We already have a term for what the ‘lambda’ keyword creates: a
function.

That is, ‘lambda’ creates a function object, without anything to
distinguish it from a function created any other way.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Question on lambdas Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-12-09 10:58 +1100
  Re: Question on lambdas Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2014-12-09 02:44 +0100
    Re: Question on lambdas Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-09 06:38 +0000
  Re: Question on lambdas Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-09 12:53 +1100
  Re: Question on lambdas Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-12-08 21:09 -0500
  Re: Question on lambdas Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-12-09 16:23 +1100
    Re: Question on lambdas "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-09 13:43 +0100
  Re: Question on lambdas Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-12-08 22:44 -0800

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