我使用lambdas来避免代码重复。这样函数就容易理解了 例如:

def a_func()
  ...
  if some_conditon:
     ...
     call_some_big_func(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4...)
  else
     ...
     call_some_big_func(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4...)

我用一个临时变量替换它

def a_func()
  ...
  call_big_f = lambda args_that_change: call_some_big_func(arg1, arg2, arg3, args_that_change)
  if some_conditon:
     ...
     call_big_f(argX)
  else
     ...
     call_big_f(argY)

Lambdas实际上是非常强大的构造，它源于函数式编程的思想，而且在Python的近期内，它绝不可能被轻易地修改、重新定义或删除。它们可以帮助您编写更强大的代码，因为它允许您将函数作为参数传递，因此函数是一等公民。

Lambdas确实容易让人困惑，但一旦获得了扎实的理解，你就可以写出像这样干净优雅的代码:

squared = map(lambda x: x*x, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

上面的代码行返回列表中数字的平方的列表。当然，你也可以这样做:

def square(x):
    return x*x

squared = map(square, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

显然，前一种代码更短，如果您打算只在一个地方使用map函数(或任何以函数作为参数的类似函数)，则尤其如此。这也使代码更加直观和优雅。

另外，正如@David Zaslavsky在他的回答中提到的，列表推导并不总是正确的方法，尤其是当你的列表必须从一些晦涩的数学方法中获取值时。

从更实际的角度来看，lambdas最近对我来说最大的优势之一是在GUI和事件驱动编程方面。如果你看一下Tkinter中的回调，它们所接受的参数就是触发它们的事件。如。

def define_bindings(widget):
    widget.bind("<Button-1>", do-something-cool)

def do-something-cool(event):
    #Your code to execute on the event trigger

现在如果你有一些论点要通过呢?简单到传递2个参数来存储鼠标单击的坐标。你可以简单地这样做:

def main():
    # define widgets and other imp stuff
    x, y = None, None
    widget.bind("<Button-1>", lambda event: do-something-cool(x, y))

def do-something-cool(event, x, y):
    x = event.x
    y = event.y
    #Do other cool stuff

现在，您可以争辩说这可以使用全局变量来完成，但是，如果全局变量只用于一个特定的位置，您真的想要担心内存管理和泄漏吗?那只是糟糕的编程风格。

简而言之，lambdas是很棒的，永远不应该被低估。尽管Python lambdas与LISP lambdas不同(后者更强大)，但您确实可以用它们做很多神奇的事情。

我怀疑lambda不会消失。 请参阅Guido关于最终放弃尝试删除它的帖子。也请参阅冲突概要。

你可以看看这篇文章，了解更多Python函数特性背后的交易历史: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/04/origins-of-pythons-functional-features.html

奇怪的是，最初引入lambda和其他函数特性的map、filter和reduce函数在很大程度上已经被列表推导式和生成器表达式所取代。事实上，在Python 3.0中，reduce函数已从内置函数列表中删除。(但是，没有必要投诉lambda、map或filter的删除:它们被保留了。: -)

我个人的意见是:就清晰度而言，lambda值不了多少。通常有一个更清晰的不包含的解。

Lambdas通常与函数式编程风格密切相关。通过将函数应用于某些数据并合并结果来解决问题，这是谷歌用于实现其大多数算法的思想。

以函数式编程风格编写的程序很容易并行化，因此在现代多核机器中变得越来越重要。 所以简而言之，不，你不应该忘记他们。

Lambda是一个过程构造函数。你可以在运行时合成程序，尽管Python的lambda不是很强大。请注意，很少有人理解这种编程。

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.