I started reading David Mertz's book today 'Text Processing in Python.' While he has a fairly terse description of Lambda's the examples in the first chapter combined with the explanation in Appendix A made them jump off the page for me (finally) and all of a sudden I understood their value. That is not to say his explanation will work for you and I am still at the discovery stage so I will not attempt to add to these responses other than the following: I am new to Python I am new to OOP Lambdas were a struggle for me Now that I read Mertz, I think I get them and I see them as very useful as I think they allow a cleaner approach to programming.

He reproduces the Zen of Python, one line of which is Simple is better than complex. As a non-OOP programmer reading code with lambdas (and until last week list comprehensions) I have thought-This is simple?. I finally realized today that actually these features make the code much more readable, and understandable than the alternative-which is invariably a loop of some sort. I also realized that like financial statements-Python was not designed for the novice user, rather it is designed for the user that wants to get educated. I can't believe how powerful this language is. When it dawned on me (finally) the purpose and value of lambdas I wanted to rip up about 30 programs and start over putting in lambdas where appropriate.

I started reading David Mertz's book today 'Text Processing in Python.' While he has a fairly terse description of Lambda's the examples in the first chapter combined with the explanation in Appendix A made them jump off the page for me (finally) and all of a sudden I understood their value. That is not to say his explanation will work for you and I am still at the discovery stage so I will not attempt to add to these responses other than the following: I am new to Python I am new to OOP Lambdas were a struggle for me Now that I read Mertz, I think I get them and I see them as very useful as I think they allow a cleaner approach to programming.

He reproduces the Zen of Python, one line of which is Simple is better than complex. As a non-OOP programmer reading code with lambdas (and until last week list comprehensions) I have thought-This is simple?. I finally realized today that actually these features make the code much more readable, and understandable than the alternative-which is invariably a loop of some sort. I also realized that like financial statements-Python was not designed for the novice user, rather it is designed for the user that wants to get educated. I can't believe how powerful this language is. When it dawned on me (finally) the purpose and value of lambdas I wanted to rip up about 30 programs and start over putting in lambdas where appropriate.

如上所述，Python中的lambda操作符定义了一个匿名函数，而Python中的函数是闭包。重要的是不要将闭包的概念与操作符lambda混淆，后者对它们来说只是句法上的美沙酮。

当我几年前开始使用Python时，我经常使用lambda，认为它们很酷，还有列表推导式。然而，我编写并维护了一个用Python编写的大型网站，其中有几千个功能点。我从经验中了解到，lambdas可能可以用来创建原型，但除了节省一些键，它不能提供任何内联函数(命名闭包)，有时也不能。

基本上这可以归结为几点:

it is easier to read software that is explicitly written using meaningful names. Anonymous closures by definition cannot have a meaningful name, as they have no name. This brevity seems, for some reason, to also infect lambda parameters, hence we often see examples like lambda x: x+1 it is easier to reuse named closures, as they can be referred to by name more than once, when there is a name to refer to them by. it is easier to debug code that is using named closures instead of lambdas, because the name will appear in tracebacks, and around the error.

这就有足够的理由将它们集中起来，并将它们转换为命名闭包。然而，我对匿名闭包还有另外两个不满。

第一个不满是，它们只是又一个不必要的关键字，把语言弄得乱七八糟。

第二个不满是更深层次的，在范式层面上，也就是说，我不喜欢他们提倡一种函数式编程风格，因为这种风格不如消息传递、面向对象或过程式风格灵活，因为lambda微积分不是图灵完备的(幸运的是，在Python中，我们仍然可以在lambda内部突破这种限制)。我觉得lambdas推崇这种风格的原因是:

这里有一个隐式的返回，即它们看起来像“应该”是函数。 它们是另一种更显式、更可读、更可重用和更通用的机制——方法——的状态隐藏机制的替代方案。

我努力编写无lambda的Python，并在看到lambdas时删除lambdas。我认为如果没有lambdas, Python将是一种更好的语言，但这只是我的个人观点。

我不能说python对lambda的具体实现，但一般来说lambda函数真的很方便。它们是函数式编程的核心技术(甚至是技术)，在面向对象程序中也非常有用。对于某些类型的问题，它们是最好的解决方案，所以当然不应该忘记!

我建议你仔细阅读闭包和map函数(它链接到python文档，但它存在于几乎所有支持函数结构的语言中)，看看它为什么有用。

lambdas在GUI编程中非常有用。例如，假设您正在创建一组按钮，并且希望使用单个参数化回调，而不是每个按钮使用唯一的回调。Lambda让你轻松完成:

for value in ["one","two","three"]:
    b = tk.Button(label=value, command=lambda arg=value: my_callback(arg))
    b.pack()

(注意:虽然这个问题是专门问lambda的，但你也可以使用functools。以获得相同类型的结果)

另一种方法是为每个按钮创建单独的回调，这可能导致重复的代码。

我发现lambda对于执行相同功能的函数列表很有用，但适用于不同的情况。

就像Mozilla的复数规则:

plural_rules = [
    lambda n: 'all',
    lambda n: 'singular' if n == 1 else 'plural',
    lambda n: 'singular' if 0 <= n <= 1 else 'plural',
    ...
]
# Call plural rule #1 with argument 4 to find out which sentence form to use.
plural_rule[1](4) # returns 'plural'

如果你必须为所有这些定义一个函数，到最后你会疯掉的。 另外，像plural_rule_1, plural_rule_2这样的函数名也不太好。当你依赖于变量函数id时，你需要eval()它。