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。

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。

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.

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