我经常使用它，主要是作为空对象或将参数部分绑定到函数。

下面是一些例子:

实现空对象模式:

{
    DATA_PACKET: self.handle_data_packets
    NET_PACKET: self.handle_hardware_packets
}.get(packet_type, lambda x : None)(payload)

对于参数绑定:

假设我有以下API

def dump_hex(file, var)
    # some code
    pass

class X(object):
    #...
    def packet_received(data):
        # some kind of preprocessing
        self.callback(data)
    #...

然后，当我不想快速转储接收到的数据到一个文件，我这样做:

dump_file = file('hex_dump.txt','w')
X.callback = lambda (x): dump_hex(dump_file, x)
...
dump_file.close()

只是函数的一种奇特说法。除了它的名字，它没有什么晦涩、吓人或神秘的地方。当你读到下面这行，在脑海中用函数替换lambda:

>>> f = lambda x: x + 1
>>> f(3)
4

它只是定义了一个关于x的函数。其他一些语言，比如R，显式地说:

> f = function(x) { x + 1 }
> f(3)
4

你看到了什么?这是编程中最自然的事情之一。

你可以用lambda做的任何事情，都可以用命名函数或列表和生成器表达式做得更好。

因此，在大多数情况下，在任何情况下您都应该只使用其中一种(可能除了在交互式解释器中编写的草稿代码)。

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

我是一个python初学者，所以为了获得一个清晰的lambda概念，我将它与'for'循环进行了比较;在效率方面。 下面是代码(python 2.7) -

import time
start = time.time() # Measure the time taken for execution

def first():
    squares = map(lambda x: x**2, range(10))
    # ^ Lambda
    end = time.time()
    elapsed = end - start
    print elapsed + ' seconds'
    return elapsed # gives 0.0 seconds

def second():
    lst = []
    for i in range(10):
        lst.append(i**2)
    # ^ a 'for' loop
    end = time.time()
    elapsed = end - start
    print elapsed + ' seconds'
    return elapsed # gives 0.0019998550415 seconds.

print abs(second() - first()) # Gives 0.0019998550415 seconds!(duh)

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.