[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> No, it is not merely a shortcut. It often allows one to avoid
> polluting the namespace with a completely superfluous function name,
> thus reducing code smell.
Which can also be done by using inner functions.
> It can also avoid a multi-line function defintion which often pushes
> other relevant code off the current page and out of view, and thus
> lambda can increase program readability.
def somefunc(x): return x*5
How is that a multi-line function definition?
Sybren
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