Error using the print function inside a lambda function in Python 2.7

Question

I\'m running a simple code in Python 2.7, but it is giving me syntax error.

hello = lambda first: print(\"Hello\", first)

The error reported i

Answer 1

Python disallows the use of statements in lambda expressions:

Note that functions created with lambda expressions cannot contain statements or annotations.

print is a statement in Python 2, unless you import the print_function feature from __future__:

>>> lambda x: print(x)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    lambda x: print(x)
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> lambda x: print(x)
<function <lambda> at 0x7f2ed301d668>