question about what lamda does

[K.S.Sreeram]

grebekel at gmail.com wrote:
> The two primary differences between using def and using lambda is that
> lambda is limited to a single expression and def cannot be used within
> another function.

'def' can certainly be used within another function :

def make_adder( delta ) :
    def adder( x ) :
        return x + delta
    return adder

[sreeram;]

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