In regards to the complaint on lambda, isn't it more pythonic to use list comprehensions anyway? intlist=range(0,16) filter(lambda x: x % 3 == 0, intlist) vs

In regards to the complaint on lambda, isn't it more pythonic to use list comprehensions anyway? intlist=range(0,16) filter(lambda x: x % 3 == 0, intlist) vs. [x for x in intlist if x % 3 == 0] Should be faster too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1247486/python-list-comprehension-vs-map http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1247486/python-list-compr... I know anonymous functions are idiomatic in javascript from using jquery, but I rarely use them in python. Does anyone have a good example of leveraging lambda in python?