on a statement followed by an expression

Sat Jun 4 17:32:48 EDT 2022

Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery at levado.to> writes:
 How can I execute a statement followed by a value in a single line?
 def roberry_via_reduce(rs):
 return my_reduce(rs, lambda d, r: ``increment and return d'', {})
The grammar or Python is deliberately designed so that the body of a
lambda expression cannot contain any statements. So your original code,
where you defined a separate `count_in' procedure, is probably what you
want.
Although using `reduce' is kind of silly in this case because you aren't
computing a new dictionary every time, but instead you are mutating the
_same_ dictionary every time. Your original code that used a `for' loop
is actually much clearer.
-- 
Alan Bawden