[Python-Dev] Re: "groupby" iterator
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Tue Dec 2 14:26:40 EST 2003
> > So, while I'm not particularly keen on lambda, I'm not that keen on
> > attrgetter either. But what could be better? All I can think of are
> > slightly shorter but even more crippled forms of lambda; for example,
> > we could invent a new keyword XXX so that the expression (XXX.foo) is
> > equivalent to (lambda self: self.foo). This isn't very attractive.
>
> Doesn't have to be a keyword... I implemented something like this
> years ago and then ditched it when list comps appeared.
>
> It would let you do things like
>
> >>> map(X + 1, range(2))
> [1, 2, 3]
What was your notation like? Did you actually use 'X'?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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