I am new to python. I have a few questions coming from an armature!

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 7:22:42 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2016 12:57 AM, "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" wrote:
> 
> But perhaps this limitation wasn’t intentional, just an inherent
> consequence of the fact that Python’s significant-whitespace rules only
> apply to statements, not expressions...
> 
> I think the primary reason for that is just that nobody has yet come up
> with a good syntax proposal for anonymous functions to contain statement
> lists.

Only because Python makes it difficult, for the reason I mentioned.

Other languages have had no trouble with it. For example, Perl and JavaScript use their existing function-definition constructs, just omitting the function name.