Lambda Forms Question

[Olivier Dagenais]

You do it pretty much like in Scheme, you have to evaluate the function
object:

>>> (lambda x: x * x) (4)
16
>>> func = (lambda x: x * x)
>>> func ( 15 )
225


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"Scott Weisel" <sweisel at drew.edu> wrote in message
news:39EE3CC1.E2B07AB7 at drew.edu...
> I'm working with Python on a school project and while I was reading the
> documentation I was quite surprised to find out that Python has some
> features of Lisp.  Since we're using Scheme, a variant of Lisp in class, I
> was hoping to use the Lisp feature in Python, but I'm having trouble
> implementing it.
>
> The example that the online documentation gives is
> def make_incrementor(n):
>          return lambda x, incr=n: x+incr
> which returns a function.  Is there any way to write the program so a
value
> is returned, rather than a function.
>
> Also, how do I write the functions by themselves.  I wrote
> lambda x: x*x
> but I have no way to call it.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated
> Thanks in advance
> -Scott