If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)

Benjamin.Altman benjamin.altman at noaa.gov
Tue Apr 17 10:08:32 EDT 2001


If Python is supposed to provide one obviously correct way of doing things why
did they create the lambda notation?

Alex Martelli wrote:

> At a MICRO level ("programming in the small") it's never been
> part of Python's design goals to provide many ways to express
> one design idea.  "There should be ONE 'obviously correct' way
> to do it" is one of the Python mantras -- clearly an ideal, one
> that is totally unattainable of one dreams of something being




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