On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 12:40 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I believe that many people have a lot of trouble grasping the concept of > functions as first-class values capable of being passed to other functions > as data... It took me a long time to stop writing code like this: > > map(lambda x: len(x), sequence) > > instead of simply map(len, sequence). > That long time is ongoing :-) You recently wrote in another thread: widget.register(callback=lambda: spam.eggs()) Instead of the slightly faster and definitely more direct: widget.register(callback=spam.eggs()) >
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