How is a 5 line class with 2 underscore methods more pythonic than a nested lamb...

yummyfajitas · on April 9, 2009

While python supports some basic functional programming, it's primarily a procedural/object oriented language. And it shows.

As the article demonstrates, using nested lambda's doesn't work the way you expect for closures. Using an object does.

edit: update. I found the presentation where guido talks about how he dislikes all the functional stuff, including lambda.

tptacek · on April 9, 2009

Does it make you sad that this is the same answer you'd have given if the language in question was Java?

Just rubbing it in.