lambda in list comprehension acting funny

Daniel Fetchinson fetchinson at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 11 02:41:57 EDT 2012


funcs = [ lambda x: x**i for i in range( 5 ) ]
print funcs[0]( 2 )
print funcs[1]( 2 )
print funcs[2]( 2 )

This gives me

16
16
16

When I was excepting

1
2
4

Does anyone know why?

Cheers,
Daniel


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