Lambda Function in Python

^Downloadable code & more! Lambda functions can be used with arrays, if statements and much more. This is a quick tutorial on some of the things you can do with one line lambda functions in Python

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LAMBDA FUNCTIONS

I’m going to show you a quick easy way to create one line functions in python

These are particularly helpful for computational functions

to create a lambda function type the name of a variable, (we will do f) equals, lambda, a name of another variable (we will do x) colon, then use the second variable to create a function. In this first example we will do x squared

Now to call the function we write the name of it with a value in parenthesis to plug in as x

So 5 squared is 25 and 3.22 squared is 10.368…

In this next example we create a lambda function with an if statement

So our function will be 1 or -1 depending on the value we give it. This has endless applications when coding.

For our last example we will import numpy

This is a three dimensional example. We define the function the same way, only this time when we write the actual function part we treat x as if it is a vector with three values. x[0] is the first entry of the vector

This function will sum the values of our vector, and require that we put a vector of size 3 in

Lambda functions can also be plotted with marplot lib, check the description for a video on how to plot lambda functions

So there you have it, that is how you use lambda functions in python

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