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> But it's actually shorter

It's not: with def() you have to explicitly write return, while with lambda it is implicit.

You don't need a return, just a print (since we are doing FizzBuzz).

For tghw's solution to work you'd have to have a print outside of the function call (since you can't print from a lambda). With the def, you can print inside of the function (and don't need a return, since you're just printing).

A minor quibble, but in Python 3 you can print in a lambda because print is no longer a keyword.

As a non-Python 3 user, I just opened up the python 3 REPL to try something I always find myself wanting to do in tiny little python scripts:

  map(print, some_list)

Unfortunately, it returned a map object, which I guess is also new in Python 3 (I assume it's a lazy application device).

You can (ab)use iterable unpacking in Py3k, now that print's a real function:

    print(*[1,2,3], sep='\n')

I use this function to force evaluation of elements in a generator:

    def do(gen):
       for x in gen:
          pass

It evaluates all elements of a generator with storing them in memory. If you don't mind generating some garbage, you can just use the list function instead.

Use `list()` to force eager evaluation with Python 3 map / filter.

Yeah, the map builtin is essentially itertools.imap in python 3.

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