Archives for the Date February 27th, 2008

Learning Python: Chapter 17

Anonymous functions are declared with lambda instead of def.
Lambda definitions are expressions and may therefore not contain if-statements and the like.
map(foo, list1, list2, list3) is like [foo(*tuple) for tuple in zip(list1, list2, list3)].
By using yield instead of return to provide a return value, you create a function that returns a generator object that returns one [...]