False condition

Question

is there another way to invert the condition than lambda x: x%2 != 0
si if I want a list with all divisions by 2 not equal 0 can I write something like:
not lambda x: x%2==0 instead of lambda x: x%2!=0 ?

Answer 1

No you can't. "not" is a logical operator. It works only with "bool" type or smth that can be converted to boolean using "bool()" function. You can't negate the declaration of a function. You can only negate the returned value. For instance:

>>> not lambda x: x%2 == 0
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> a = lambda x: x%2 == 0
>>> not a(3)
True

If you want a list with all odd numbers, as you have written, you can try list comprehention instead of map:

>>> [n for n in range(10) if n%2]
[1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

Answer 2

Also you can rewrite it as lambda x: not x%2. Maybe that's what you wanted.

>>> list(map(lambda x: not x%2, range(10)))
[True, False, True, False, True, False, True, False, True, False]

You can get a list of all odd numbers using map like this:

>>> list(map(lambda x: x*2+1, range(5)))
[1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

Or like this (which is ugly):

odds = []
list(map(lambda x: (odds.append(x) if x%2 else None), range(10)))
print(odds)

[1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

Answer 3

thanks that's what I wanted

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

no

Answer 6

no