lambda functions ?

[Maxim Veksler]

Hello,
I'm new on this list and in python.

It seems python has some interesting concept of "ad hoc" function
which I'm trying to understand without much success.

Take the following code for example:

"""
>>> def make_incrementor(n):
... return lambda x: x + n
...
>>> f = make_incrementor(42)
>>> f(0)
42
>>> f(1)
43
"""

I really don't understand whats going on here.
On the first instantiating of the object "f" where does "x" gets it's
value? Or is it evaluated as 0? ie "x: 0 + 42"

And what is the "f" object? An integer? a pointer? an Object?
I'm coming from the C world...

Could some please try (if even possible) to implement the above code
without using "lambda" I believe it would help me grasp this a bit
faster then.

Thank you,
Maxim.


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