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Stubbing function

Charles G Waldman cgw at fnal.gov
Fri Jan 14 13:42:08 EST 2000 
Timothy Grant writes:
 > Is there a "standard" method of stubbing functions in Tkinter?
 > 
 > I would like to be able to use the "command=lambda:????" construct to
 > stub my functions as I don't like creating functions with empty bodies
 > just for stubbing purposes. I tried "command=lambda: pass" and that
 > generated syntax errors, so I know that I'm missing something basic
 > about how lambdas work, I just don't quite know what!


Note that 

     lambda: None

 works just fine.

lambdas may not contain any statements, just functions and
expressions.  For instance:

     lambda x: print x

is illegal, wheras

     lambda x: sys.stdout.write("%s\n"%x)

is allowed.

Hope this helps,

		-cgw
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