Syntax for one-line "nonymous" functions in "declaration style"

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 3:55 AM Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov at gmail.com> wrote:
> I clarified what i meant by an assignment, and i believe it to be a
> usual meaning.
>
>   1. `def` is not an assignment, there is no left-hand side or
> right-hand side. I was talking about the normal assignment by which
> anyone can bind any value to any variable.

Actually, a 'def' statement DOES perform assignment. It does a bit
more than that, but it definitely is assignment. You can easily check
the CPython disassembly:

>>> import dis
>>> def f():
...     def g(x): return x * 3 + 1
...
>>> dis.dis(f)
  2           0 LOAD_CONST               1 (<code object g at
0x7fa529daf540, file "<stdin>", line 2>)
              2 LOAD_CONST               2 ('f.<locals>.g')
              4 MAKE_FUNCTION            0
              6 STORE_FAST               0 (g)
              8 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
             10 RETURN_VALUE

[disassembly of g() omitted as it's irrelevant]

At run time, the statement "def g(x): ..." means "grab this code
object and this name, make a function, *and assign it to the name g*".

Your other points, I agree on.

ChrisA