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。

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.

lambdas在GUI编程中非常有用。例如，假设您正在创建一组按钮，并且希望使用单个参数化回调，而不是每个按钮使用唯一的回调。Lambda让你轻松完成:

for value in ["one","two","three"]:
    b = tk.Button(label=value, command=lambda arg=value: my_callback(arg))
    b.pack()

(注意:虽然这个问题是专门问lambda的，但你也可以使用functools。以获得相同类型的结果)

另一种方法是为每个按钮创建单独的回调，这可能导致重复的代码。

我不能说python对lambda的具体实现，但一般来说lambda函数真的很方便。它们是函数式编程的核心技术(甚至是技术)，在面向对象程序中也非常有用。对于某些类型的问题，它们是最好的解决方案，所以当然不应该忘记!

我建议你仔细阅读闭包和map函数(它链接到python文档，但它存在于几乎所有支持函数结构的语言中)，看看它为什么有用。

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。

Lambda是一个过程构造函数。你可以在运行时合成程序，尽管Python的lambda不是很强大。请注意，很少有人理解这种编程。