你说的是lambda表达式吗?就像

lambda x: x**2 + 2*x - 5

这些东西其实很有用。Python支持一种称为函数式编程的编程风格，在这种编程风格中，您可以将函数传递给其他函数来执行某些操作。例子:

mult3 = filter(lambda x: x % 3 == 0, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])

将mult3设置为[3,6,9]，即原始列表中3的倍数的元素。这句话更短(有人可能会说，更清楚)

def filterfunc(x):
    return x % 3 == 0
mult3 = filter(filterfunc, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])

当然，在这个特殊的情况下，你可以做同样的事情作为一个列表推导:

mult3 = [x for x in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] if x % 3 == 0]

(甚至作为range(3,10,3))，但还有许多其他更复杂的用例，在这些用例中，您不能使用列表推导式，lambda函数可能是写出一些东西的最短方法。

Returning a function from another function >>> def transform(n): ... return lambda x: x + n ... >>> f = transform(3) >>> f(4) 7 This is often used to create function wrappers, such as Python's decorators. Combining elements of an iterable sequence with reduce() >>> reduce(lambda a, b: '{}, {}'.format(a, b), [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]) '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9' Sorting by an alternate key >>> sorted([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], key=lambda x: abs(5-x)) [5, 4, 6, 3, 7, 2, 8, 1, 9]

我经常使用lambda函数。我花了一段时间来适应它们，但最终我明白了它们是语言中非常有价值的一部分。

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。

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

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.

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。