Python newbie needs constructive suggestions

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.8409.1153526071.27775.python-list at python.org>,
davew-python at cs.haverford.edu wrote:

>   b) give up on using an anonymous function and create a named "successor"
>   function with "def",

This is what you have to do. For some reason mr van Rossum has this aversion
to anonymous functions, and tries to cripple them as much as possible.