Is there a function that applies list of functions to a value?

[fp2161 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:35:39 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:27 AM,  <fp2161 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Chris, call me a snob, but I resent using lambdas (aren't they usually considered odd/bad practice in python?)
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> They're not bad practice; all they are is a function without a name,
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> that's restricted to returning a single expression. So they're
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> perfectly suited to this task, and ill-suited to some others.
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> Like everything, lambda's a tool that can be used or misused.
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> ChrisA

For this purpose however, I suspect that a named function with a proper docstring that can be imported and reused over and over again is probably more appropriate than a lambda (the first post is telling us about something happening from time to time...)