I sing the praises of lambda, my friend and savior!

[Paul Rubin]

Dave Benjamin <ramen at lackingtalent.com> writes:
> that it lacks a more powerful closure construct. For instance, on the dev
> list, as quickly as the new "sort(key=lambda x: x[1])" idiom was introduced,
> people started hunting for ways to squash the lambda, the winners being
> "operator.attrgetter()" and "operator.itemgetter()". 

But why would you want to need to remember such obscure functions?  I
never heard of any of those.  Maybe they should be eliminated instead of
lambda.  There should be one obvious way to do it, and lambda suffices.