Question about map() and class methods

[Scott Anderson]

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Content preview:  My example was actually not representative of the problem.
   Here's the crux: if you have a list of class instances, and wish to call
  a method that *may* be overridden by a subclass, you have to use a lambda
  with map() (losing the speed gains of using map(), obviously): [...] 

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