Why doesn’t print work in a lambda?

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A lambda‘s body has to be a single expression. In Python 2.x, print is a statement. However, in Python 3, print is a function (and a function application is an expression, so it will work in a lambda). You can (and should, for forward compatibility 🙂 use the back-ported print function if you are using the latest Python 2.x:

In [1324]: from __future__ import print_function

In [1325]: f = lambda x: print(x)

In [1326]: f("HI")
HI

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