On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:34:04 +0000 "Barak, Ron" <ron.ba...@lsi.com> wrote: > Thanks Tino: your solutions without the lambda work nicely. > What I still don't understand is why the print does not execute the lambda > and prints the result, instead of printing the lambda's object description.
Because that's what you told it. Consider the even simpler example... "%s" % lambda num: int(num) This is equivalent to... "%s" % int IOW, you are giving the function (anonymous in your case), not the result of calling it. Your code prints a representation of exactly what you gave it, an anonymous function that would return a string if you called it with a number. > > for num in range(1,4): > > string_ = "%d event%s" % (num,lambda num: num > 1 and "s" or "") -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
