Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Wed Nov 14 12:16:13 EST 2001

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"Peter Bismuti" <peterb at cortland.com> wrote ...
> Anonymous was the word I was looking for in my previous post.  I want to
> pass a function as an argument but don't want to have to define it
globally.
> The way I don't want to do it:
>
> def foo():
>     pass
> callFunction(foo)
>
> The way I want to do it:
>
>     callFunction(def foo(): pass)
>
>
> I'm guessing this can't be done because of Python's indenting syntax.
>
Correct. The nearest thing Python has to anonymous functions is lambda
expressions, but of course they can't be multiline.

>>> def f(ff):
...  return ff(12)
...
>>> f(lambda x: x*x)
144
>>>

regards
 Steve
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