How to get filter to work with a lambda taking multiple arguments?

Question

Using Python, am finding it difficult to get filter() to work with lambda for cases where more than 1 argument needs to be passed as is the case in the following snippet:

Answer 1

The function passed to filter() only gets a single argument passed to it, which is the current element in the iterable being iterated.. If you need something fancier than that then filter() won't do.