Question on lambdas

[Ben Finney]

Christoph Becker <cmbecker69 at gmx.de> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > It's best to remember that ‘lambda’ is syntactic sugar for creating
> > a function; the things it creates are not special in any way, they
> > are normal functions, not “lambdas”.
>
> Could you please elaborate why ‘lambda’ does not create “lambdas”. I'm
> a Python beginner (not new to programming, though), and rather
> confused about your statement.

We already have a term for what the ‘lambda’ keyword creates: a
function.

That is, ‘lambda’ creates a function object, without anything to
distinguish it from a function created any other way.

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