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

我使用lambdas来避免代码重复。这样函数就容易理解了 例如:

def a_func()
  ...
  if some_conditon:
     ...
     call_some_big_func(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4...)
  else
     ...
     call_some_big_func(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4...)

我用一个临时变量替换它

def a_func()
  ...
  call_big_f = lambda args_that_change: call_some_big_func(arg1, arg2, arg3, args_that_change)
  if some_conditon:
     ...
     call_big_f(argX)
  else
     ...
     call_big_f(argY)

其他回答

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。

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。

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。

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