15.02.2011

Suppose that we have a list and we need to apply some function on each element of it.
One good example is getting a file content using readlines(). This function will get every line, including the newline (e.g. \n.)

One thing we can do is this:

r = []
for line in fh.readlines():
    r.append(line.strip())

But a better way is to use map and a lambda function:

map((lambda(x): x.strip()), self.fh.readlines())