sending a function on the fly?

Paul Winkler slinkp23 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 15 12:54:40 EST 2001


On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:08:50 +0100, Max M <maxm at normik.dk> wrote:
>"Peter Bismuti" <peterb at cortland.com> wrote in message
>news:3bf2a06f$1 at 207.229.64.20...
>
>> In ECMAscript you can send a function as an argument that is defined on
>the
>> fly such as:
>>
>> callMyFunction( new Function(){ blah blah })
>>
>> Something like that. Here the function has not been named and was not
>> defined outside of the call.   Can this be done in Python?

You can't put a def statement inside a function call. But you could
use lambda.

--PW



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