a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Martin v. Löwis]

Ed Avis <ed at membled.com> writes:

> I've given several examples, a possible grammar rule (use simple_stmt)
> and a semantics (the same as a named def).

That would be an incompatible change. Currently

x = lambda:2
print x()

prints "2". Under your change, this would be the same as

def anon():
  2
x = anon
print x()

so it would print "None" instead.

Regards,
Martin