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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm missing something, but:

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So much Python criticism comes from people who don't know the language.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, there is a lot wrong with it, but every language has its quirks. Generally I like discussing it's actual flaws cause it helps me better understand the language.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

a lambdo which can only contain one expression, and not even a statement is pretty much useless. For anything nontrivial you have to write a separate function and have the lambda be just a function call expression. Which completely defeats the point

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And switch cases (called match cases) are there as well.

I use lambdas all the time to shovel GTK signal emitions from worker threads into GLib.idle_add in a single line, works as you'd expect.

Previous commenters probably didn't look at Python in a really long time.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

i mean tbf match case was only added in 3.10