[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are already anonymous functions in Python.
>
> lambda x, y, z: x + y + z
>
> is the same as:
>
> def _(x, y, z): return x + y + z
They are the same only in special cases:
The special identifier "_" is used in the interactive
interpreter to store the result of the last evaluation; it
is stored in the __builtin__ module. When not in interactive
mode, "_" has no special meaning and is not defined.
[Python Reference Manual; 2.3.2 Reserved classes of
identifiers. http://docs.python.org/ref/id-classes.html]
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