From: Paul Prescod <paul@...>
Date: 2003-03-28T04:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas?

Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>...
> Is this true? That seems to me a *giant*
> difference.
> 
> I don't mean to doubt you -- I don't know
> Python -- but why hasn't this come up
> before on this list?

Note that these are limitations of Python's lambda keyword. Lambda is 
just syntactic sugar for this:

def _something():
     ...

blah(_something)

If you don't like the keyword lambda, or can't live with its 
restrictions, just don't use it. There is nothing you can do with it 
that you can't do with named functions.

  Paul Prescod