map, filter, reduce, zip, range, and.. slice?

[Skip Montanaro]

    George> Eddie's solution in the lambda notation...

    George> divide = lambda x,s=1: [ x[i:i+s] for i in range(0,len(x),s) ]
    ...
    George> Love them lambdas...

Just out of curiosity, what's the advantage you perceive of lambda over

    def divide(x, s=1):
        return [ x[i:i+s] for i in range(0,len(x),s) ]

in this situation?

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