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'}]

lambda是处理高阶函数的非常重要的抽象机制的一部分。为了正确理解它的价值，请观看Abelson和Sussman的高质量课程，并阅读《SICP》一书

这些都是与现代软件业务相关的问题，并且变得越来越流行。

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。

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'}]

两行总结:

闭包:非常有用。学习它们，利用它们，热爱它们。 Python的lambda关键字:不必要，偶尔有用。如果你发现自己在用它做任何复杂的事情，把它放在一边，定义一个真正的函数。

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.