Applications/examples of some advanced Py features, please !

[Ben Wolfson]

On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 12:46:37 -0700, Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com>
wrote:

>1. Don't use lambda.
>
>It's good for a few things, but in many cases you should use a
>list comprehension.  For an example, cgi.py has
>
>      plist = map(lambda x: x.strip(), line.split(';'))
>
>as a list comprehension this is more more clearly written as
>
>      plist = [x.strip() for x in line.split(';')]

I think this is even more clear written as

    plist = map(str.strip, line.split(';'))

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