what's wrong with "lambda x : print x/60,x%60"

[Sybren Stuvel]

Steven D'Aprano enlightened us with:
> All joking aside, when I have names (temporary variables or
> scaffolding functions) that I need to initialise a module or data
> structure, but then outlive their usefulness, I del the name
> afterwards. Am I the only one?

I don't do that. I tend to split up my code into pretty small
functions, so the temporary names I use have a small scope as is. I
don't see the need to add extra 'del' commands when the 'return' five
lines further down is going to do the same.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa