I am new to python. I have a few questions coming from an armature!

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On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 8:07:32 AM UTC-7, alister wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:00:47 -0700, Sickfit92 wrote:
> 
> > 1. How long did it take you guys to master the language or, let me put
> > it this way to completely get the hang and start writing code?
> > 
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> Some concepts took more time than others before I had the "Light bulb" 
> moment, Comprehensions & decorators being the most notable although 
> Lambda still escapes me, fortunately these can all be unrolled into 
> larger functions so are not essential in the early stages
> 
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What helped me understand Lambdas is figuring out that they're really just a $1,000 term for a $5 concept.

A lambda is just a single-line function without a name (Unless you assign it to one).  A syntactic shortcut.

def square_plus_one(x):
    return x ** 2 + 1

squared_plus_one_list = map(square_plus_one, some_list)

is equivalent to:

squared_plus_one_list = map(lambda x: x**2 + 1, some_list)