Guido doesn’t like lambda functions too much.
Yet, most large code projects contain a lot of them! (Many coders use lambda functions as GUI callbacks, etc.)
In this “Coffee Break Python” email series, we take a pragmatic approach regarding Python code style — living in the “is” rather than in the “should be” world.
Can you solve the following puzzle about lambda functions?
# Python Puzzle
fs = [
lambda x: x + 1,
lambda x: x + x,
lambda x: x * x,
]
n = 0
for f in fs:
n = f(n)
print(n)
What’s the output of this code puzzle?
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