Department of redundancy department: Python lambdas
A coworker recently pointed out the lambda (anonymous function) in this piece of code that I wrote was redundant:
project_key_regex = re.compile(r"^project(\d+)$")
for key in filter(lambda k: project_key_regex.match(k), req.args.keys()):
...
It would be improved like this:
project_key_regex = re.compile(r"^project(\d+)$")
for key in filter(project_key_regex.match, req.args.keys()):
...Apparently, methods of an object can be thought of as functions that have one variable bound to the object.
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