我在试着找出Python的lambda。lambda是那些在现实生活中应该被遗忘的“有趣”语言项之一吗?

我确信有一些边缘情况可能需要它,但是考虑到它的模糊性,它在未来版本中被重新定义的可能性(我基于它的各种定义的假设)以及降低的编码清晰度——应该避免它吗?

这让我想起了C类型的溢出(缓冲区溢出)——指向顶部变量并重载以设置其他字段值。这感觉有点像技术人员的表演,但维护程序员的噩梦。


当前回答

I started reading David Mertz's book today 'Text Processing in Python.' While he has a fairly terse description of Lambda's the examples in the first chapter combined with the explanation in Appendix A made them jump off the page for me (finally) and all of a sudden I understood their value. That is not to say his explanation will work for you and I am still at the discovery stage so I will not attempt to add to these responses other than the following: I am new to Python I am new to OOP Lambdas were a struggle for me Now that I read Mertz, I think I get them and I see them as very useful as I think they allow a cleaner approach to programming.

He reproduces the Zen of Python, one line of which is Simple is better than complex. As a non-OOP programmer reading code with lambdas (and until last week list comprehensions) I have thought-This is simple?. I finally realized today that actually these features make the code much more readable, and understandable than the alternative-which is invariably a loop of some sort. I also realized that like financial statements-Python was not designed for the novice user, rather it is designed for the user that wants to get educated. I can't believe how powerful this language is. When it dawned on me (finally) the purpose and value of lambdas I wanted to rip up about 30 programs and start over putting in lambdas where appropriate.

其他回答

我已经使用Python好几年了,我从来没有遇到过需要lambda的情况。实际上,正如教程所述,这只是语法糖。

Lambdas通常与函数式编程风格密切相关。通过将函数应用于某些数据并合并结果来解决问题,这是谷歌用于实现其大多数算法的思想。

以函数式编程风格编写的程序很容易并行化,因此在现代多核机器中变得越来越重要。 所以简而言之,不,你不应该忘记他们。

我不能说python对lambda的具体实现,但一般来说lambda函数真的很方便。它们是函数式编程的核心技术(甚至是技术),在面向对象程序中也非常有用。对于某些类型的问题,它们是最好的解决方案,所以当然不应该忘记!

我建议你仔细阅读闭包和map函数(它链接到python文档,但它存在于几乎所有支持函数结构的语言中),看看它为什么有用。

我使用lambda来创建包含参数的回调。在一行中编写lambda比编写一个方法来执行相同的功能更简洁。

例如:

import imported.module

def func():
    return lambda: imported.module.method("foo", "bar")

相对于:

import imported.module

def func():
    def cb():
        return imported.module.method("foo", "bar")
    return cb

使用lambdas的一个有用的例子是提高长列表推导式的可读性。 在这个例子中,loop_dic是为了清晰起见的缩写,但是假设loop_dic非常长。如果你只是使用一个包含i的普通值,而不是该值的lambda版本,你会得到一个NameError。

>>> lis = [{"name": "Peter"}, {"name": "Josef"}]

>>> loop_dic = lambda i: {"name": i["name"] + " Wallace" }
>>> new_lis = [loop_dic(i) for i in lis]

>>> new_lis
[{'name': 'Peter Wallace'}, {'name': 'Josef Wallace'}]

而不是

>>> lis = [{"name": "Peter"}, {"name": "Josef"}]

>>> new_lis = [{"name": i["name"] + " Wallace"} for i in lis]

>>> new_lis
[{'name': 'Peter Wallace'}, {'name': 'Josef Wallace'}]