I really don't understand Lambda!

[Bob van der Poel]

Just when I thought I was understanding lambda, it totally confuses me.
I have the following statement in my program, which works:

	wg.bind("<Return>", lambda s=wg: seq.setSize(wg) )

In this case 'wg' is a tkinter Entry widget and seq.setSize is a class
method which extracts some data from the widget, etc. So far, so good.

However, originally, I had tried:

	wg.bind("<Return>", lambda s=wg: seq.setSize(s) )

And this doesn't work. Instead of passing a reference to the Entry, it
passes the event. Clearly not what I wanted.

So, if we don't need to use the variable, why not leave out the
assignment:

	wg.bind("<Return>", lambda : seq.setSize(wg) )

Nope, seems we have to have some kind of arg, dummy or otherwise.

So, (1) do we always need some kind of assignment between the 'lambda'
and the ':'?

And (2) why doesn't my assignment attempt work?

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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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