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Comment by martin_k | Hacker News Reader

The value of the lambda is the generator object. How else could you call list() on it if it was thrown away?

You're just using the word "value" in a different way. I meant "value" as in the 7.

You're right. I am still referring to that particular part of your blog post:

  >> So that’s the only case I can think of where Python
  >> completely throws away the value of a lambda function.