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> It's a little sad that the preconditions themselves have to be written inside strings though. Isn’t it possible to pass a lambda instead?
by kuschku 9y ago
> It's a little sad that the preconditions themselves have to be written inside strings though.
Isn’t it possible to pass a lambda instead?
- fireflies_ 9y agoYes. Lambdas in Python are awkward, but you can definitely use either a lambda or a named function. In fact, you could define a number of useful precondition functions in a single module and use them throughout a project. A couple of higher-order functions could make the post's examples safer and nicer-looking too. For example: @precondition(starts_with('The year is ')) where the starts_with precondition is: def starts_with(param): def test(s): return s.startswith(param) return test
- ivanjr0 9y ago> Lambdas in Python are awkward Can you elaborate on that, please? Considering the examples given by the author, I think they would be a better option.
- abhirag 9y agoNot the OP but I think he was referring to the restrictions python puts on lambda expressions: - they can only contain a single expression - they cannot contain statements
- jmiserez 9y agoFor precondition checking, shouldn’t that suffice?
- baq 9y agoDepends on the precondition.
- Sohcahtoa82 9y agoPython has lambdas that have multiple expressions and statements. They're called functions.
- yen223 9y agoPython functions aren't anonymous