For example, you can take the absolute value of each element:
list(map(abs, (1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3))) # the call to `list` is unnecessary in 2.x
# Out: [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3]
Anonymous function also support for mapping a list:
map(lambda x:x*2, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
# Out: [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
or convert...