Aug 19, 2008 · For a person without a comp-sci background, what is a lambda in the world of Computer Science?

Here is another really good reference which explains very well what are lambda expressions in C++: Microsoft.com: Lambda expressions in C++. I especially like how well it explains the parts of a …

I saw some examples using built-in functions like sorted, sum etc. that use key=lambda. What does lambda mean here? How does it work? For the general computer science concept of a lambda, see …

Mar 8, 2011 · The lambda construct is a shorter way to define a simple function that calculates a single expression. The def statement can be inconvenient and make the code longer, broken up and harder …

Apr 7, 2017 · All lambda expressions use the lambda operator =>, which is read as "goes to". The left side of the lambda operator specifies the input parameters (if any) and the right side holds the …

Lambda expressions are becoming popular in other languages (like C#) as well. They're not going anywhere. Reading up on closures would be a useful exercise to understand Lambdas. Closures …

The closure of a lambda expression is this particular set of symbols defined in the outer context (environment) that give values to the free symbols in this expression, making them non-free …

Oct 18, 2009 · In Python it is only possible to make a lambda that returns a single expression, and the lambda cannot span multiple lines (unless you join the multiple lines by using the backslash-at-the …

by_attribute = lambda x: x.attribute == value xs = filter(by_attribute , xs) Yes, that's two lines of code instead of one, but you clean filter expression from cumbersome lambda and by naming lambda …

An easy way to perform an if in lambda is by using list comprehension. You can't raise an exception in lambda, but this is a way in Python 3.x to do something close to your example: