a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Sean Legassick]

In message <l1d6hqkbx3.fsf at budvar.future-i.net>, Ed Avis 
<ed at membled.com> writes
>    def f:
>      print 'hello'
>    x = f
>
>f is an expression, yet it 'contains' a statement.  Couldn't the same
>kind of containment be allowed for lambdas?

f might well be an expression, but surely the 'def f:' is a statement 
with an accompanying suite. It's a kind of assignment statement.

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