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。

我发现lambda对于执行相同功能的函数列表很有用，但适用于不同的情况。

就像Mozilla的复数规则:

plural_rules = [
    lambda n: 'all',
    lambda n: 'singular' if n == 1 else 'plural',
    lambda n: 'singular' if 0 <= n <= 1 else 'plural',
    ...
]
# Call plural rule #1 with argument 4 to find out which sentence form to use.
plural_rule[1](4) # returns 'plural'

如果你必须为所有这些定义一个函数，到最后你会疯掉的。 另外，像plural_rule_1, plural_rule_2这样的函数名也不太好。当你依赖于变量函数id时，你需要eval()它。

我怀疑lambda不会消失。 请参阅Guido关于最终放弃尝试删除它的帖子。也请参阅冲突概要。

你可以看看这篇文章，了解更多Python函数特性背后的交易历史: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pythons-functional-features.html

奇怪的是，最初引入lambda和其他函数特性的map、filter和reduce函数在很大程度上已经被列表推导式和生成器表达式所取代。事实上，在Python 3.0中，reduce函数已从内置函数列表中删除。(但是，没有必要投诉lambda、map或filter的删除:它们被保留了。: -)

我个人的意见是:就清晰度而言，lambda值不了多少。通常有一个更清晰的不包含的解。

首先恭喜你算出了。在我看来，这是一个非常强大的构念。如今函数式编程语言的发展趋势无疑表明，在不久的将来，它既不应该被避免，也不会被重新定义。

你只需要换个角度思考。我相信你很快就会爱上它的。但是如果你只和python打交道要小心。因为lambda不是一个真正的闭包，它以某种方式“坏了”:python的lambda坏了

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。

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.