pep 336: Make None Callable

[Terry Hancock]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 02:41 pm, Alex Martelli wrote:
> Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
>    ...
> > I just noticed though, that:
> > 
> > noop = lambda *a, **kw: None
> > 
> > is illegal (apparently lambda doesn't support argument indirection (or
> > whatever that "*" syntax is properly called)).  Never tried it before.
> 
> ???  it's quite OK:
> 
> kallisti:~/cb/cha/oop/cba alex$ python2.3
> Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) 
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> lambda *a, **k: None
> <function <lambda> at 0x61430>

Oh DUH! I actually typed:

noop = lambda *a, *kw: None

which *is* a syntax error of course. Sorry about that.  That's
a relief.

Terry

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