This question was also asked at http://ask.sagemath.org/question/2903/newbie-lambda-operator, if one or both of you wants to put your answers there so that question can count as "answered".
On Thursday, August 15, 2013 7:42:40 AM UTC-4, Jason Grout wrote: > > On 8/15/13 5:24 AM, Jean Dubois wrote: > > pi = lambda x: pari(x).primepi() > > lambda is a way of making a short function without having to name it. > The result of the above line is that pi(x) will call pari(x).primepi(). > As David mentioned, the real work is done by Pari here. > > More technical documentation for lambda functions is here: > http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/controlflow.html#lambda-forms > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
