alex martelli typcyyjgmailcom fri may 2 2008 1132 pm mike klaas wrote sorry bad example obviously silly return value function callable yet exactly keeps happening lambdahappy programmers production code well examples majorfamous projects eg simple google code search shows many zope versions containing bucketlambda instead obvious bucketdict chandler intricate threadingthreadtargetlambda xactiveporttestconxverbose0 instead threadingthreadtargettestcon argsactiveport verbose0 sqlalchemy callable_lambda selfsetup_loaderi instead callable_selfsetup_loader apparently existence lambda may easily blind one fact one simply pass callable guess thats inevitable given lambdas existence human nature plane another hatefully redundant construct find beat upon code reviews result true else result false return result vs simple return bool actually mandatory return bool cant relied upon produce one alex _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 003834 0700 pythondev pep 8 discourage named lambdas