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What Is Anonymous Function?: Anonymous Functions Can Accept Inputs and Return The Outputs, Just

Lambda functions, also known as anonymous functions, allow creating small inline functions without assigning them to a variable name. They can accept inputs and return outputs like regular functions. Lambda functions are useful when a function is needed only once and reduces lines of code when used with functions like map(), filter(), and reduce(). The sort() method in Python uses a key parameter that can take a lambda function to specify the criteria to sort a list in either ascending or descending order based on the return value of the lambda function.

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What Is Anonymous Function?: Anonymous Functions Can Accept Inputs and Return The Outputs, Just

Lambda functions, also known as anonymous functions, allow creating small inline functions without assigning them to a variable name. They can accept inputs and return outputs like regular functions. Lambda functions are useful when a function is needed only once and reduces lines of code when used with functions like map(), filter(), and reduce(). The sort() method in Python uses a key parameter that can take a lambda function to specify the criteria to sort a list in either ascending or descending order based on the return value of the lambda function.

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Lambda Function:

What is Anonymous function?

In Python programming, an anonymous function or lambda expression


is a function definition that is not bound to an identifier (def).

The anonymous function is an inline function. The anonymous functions


are created using a lambda operator and cannot contain multiple
expressions.

 The following example will show how anonymous functions work: 


result = lambda n1, n2, n3: n1 + n2 + n3;
print ("Sum of three values : ", result( 10, 20, 25 ))
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In the above code, we have created an anonymous function that adds
three numbers. The function is stored in a variable named result. The
function can then be called using this variable. In the above code, the
function has been called with three different parameter values for the
function call.

Anonymous functions can accept inputs and return the outputs, just


like other functions do.

Why do we use Python Lambda Functions?

The main objective of anonymous functions is that, when we need a


function just once, anonymous functions come in handy. Lambda
operator is not only used to create anonymous functions, but there are
many other uses of the lambda expression. We can create anonymous
functions wherever they are needed. Due to this reason, Python Lambda
Functions are also called as throw-away functions which are used along
with other predefined functions such as reduce(), filter(), and map(). 

These functions help reduce the number of lines of the code when
compared to named Python functions.

Significant Differences Between Lambda Expressions And Simple Functions.

1. Can be passed immediately with or without variables.


2. They are inline functions.
3. Automatic return of results.
4. There is neither a document string nor a name.
Python List sort():

Sorting means arranging data systematically. If the data we want to work


with is not sorted, we will face problems finding the desired element.

The Python language, like other programming languages, can sort data.

Python has an in-built method i.e. sort(), which is used to sort the


elements of the given list in a specified ascending or descending order.
There is also a built-in function i.e. sorted(), that builds a new sorted list
from an iterable like list, dictionary, etc.

The syntax of the sort() method is:


list.sort(key=myFunc ,reverse=True|False)
Parameter Values:-

Parameters Values
In the key parameter, we specify a function that is
key called on each list element before making
comparisons. 
This is optional. False will sort the list in ascending
order, and true will sort the list in descending order.
reverse
Default is reverse=False.
 

Sort() does not return any value, but it changes from the original
list.
# Lambda functions or anonymous functions
# def add(a, b):
# return a+b
#
# # minus = lambda x, y: x-y
#
# def minus(x, y):
# return x-y
#
# print(minus(9, 4))
a =[[1, 14], [5, 6], [8,23]]
a.sort(key=lambda x:x[1])
print(a)

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