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I think it's a great idea personally. It's explicit and obvious. "lamda" is too computer sciencey

On Sep 19, 2013 1:55 PM, "Ben Gift" <benhgift@gmail.com> wrote:
I think the lambda keyword is difficult to understand for many people. It would be more pythonic to use an empty def call instead.

For instance this:

��� words.sort(key = lambda x: x\[2\])


could look like this:

� � words.sort(key = def (x): x[2])

It's obvious and explicit that we're creating an unnamed, anonymous function this way.


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